''Bastilla'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...
s in the family
Erebidae. The genus was described by Swinhoe in 1918.
Taxonomy
Most species in the genus were formerly placed in the genus ''
Dysgonia
''Dysgonia'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823.
Taxonomy
Many species formerly in the genus were moved to other genera, such as ''Bastilla'', ''Buzara'', '' Pindara'' and '' Macaldenia'' ...
''.
Selected species
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Bastilla absentimacula
''Bastilla absentimacula'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from the Indian subregion to Sri Lanka, Andaman Islands, Taiwan, Java and New Guinea.
Description
The wingspan is about 50–60 mm. A pale red-brown moth. Forewings w ...
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(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla acuta''
(Moore, 1883)
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Bastilla amygdalis''
(Moore, 1885)
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Bastilla analis
''Bastilla analis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Java and China.
Description
Its wingspan is about 50 mm. It is similar to ''Bastilla arctotaenia'' in the white band of the forewing being wider ...
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(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla angularis''
(Boisduval, 1833)
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Bastilla arcuata''
(Moore, 1877)
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Bastilla arctotaenia
''Bastilla arctotaenia'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Japan, Korea and the Indo-Australian tropics throughout to India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar east to New Guinea and Queensland. It has also been recorded in Vanuatu and Fiji.
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(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla axiniphora
''Bastilla axiniphora'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many ...
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(Hampson, 1913)
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Bastilla binatang
''Bastilla binatang'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Jeremy Daniel Holloway and Scott E. Miller in 2003. It is found on Papua New Guinea
Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gi ...
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Holloway & Miller, 2003
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Bastilla circumsignata''
(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla copidiphora''
(Hampson, 1913)
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Bastilla crameri''
(Moore, 1885)
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Bastilla cuneilineata
''Bastilla cuneilineata'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Warren in 1915. It is found in New Caledonia, the Loyalty Islands and Vanuatu
Vanuatu ( or ; ), officially the Republic of Vanuatu (french: link=no, R ...
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(Warren, 1915)
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Bastilla dentilinea''
(Bethune-Baker, 1906)
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Bastilla derogans
''Bastilla derogans'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in Africa, including Eswatini, South Africa, Réunion, São Tomé and Príncipe
Príncipe is the smaller, northern major island ...
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(Walker, 1858)
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Bastilla dicoela''
(Turner, 1909)
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Bastilla duplicata''
(Robinson, 1975)
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Bastilla euryleuca''
(Prout, 1919)
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Bastilla flavipurpurea''
(Holloway, 1976)
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Bastilla flexilinea''
(Warren, 1915)
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Bastilla fulvotaenia''
(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla insularum''
(Orhant, 2002)
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Bastilla joviana''
(Stoll, 1782)
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Bastilla hamatilis''
(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla koroensis''
(Robinson, 1969)
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Bastilla lateritica
Pastilla ( ara, بسطيلة, basṭīla, also called North African pie) is a North African meat or seafood pie made with ''warqa'' dough (), which is similar to filo. It is a specialty of Morocco and Algeria. It has more recently been spre ...
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(Holloway, 1979)
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Bastilla marquesanus
Pastilla ( ara, بسطيلة, basṭīla, also called North African pie) is a North African meat or seafood pie made with ''warqa'' dough (), which is similar to filo. It is a specialty of Morocco and Algeria. It has more recently been spread ...
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(Collenette, 1928)
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Bastilla maturata
''Bastilla maturata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in the north-eastern parts of the Himalayas, southern China, Japan, Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra and Borneo
Borneo (; ...
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(Walker, 1858)
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Bastilla maturescens
''Bastilla maturescens'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in the Indian subregion, Indochina, Thailand, Sumatra
Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is t ...
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(Walker, 1858)
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Bastilla missionarii''
(Hulstaert, 1924)
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Bastilla myops
''Bastilla myops'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is most commonly found on Java and Bali.
It was formerly considered to be a synonym of ''Bastilla joviana
''Bastilla joviana'' is a moth of ...
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(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla nielseni''
Holloway & Miller, 2003
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Bastilla palpalis''
(Walker, 1865)
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Bastilla proxima''
(Hampson, 1902)
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Bastilla praetermissa
''Bastilla praetermissa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by William Warren in 1913. It is found in India and China.
The larvae feed on ''Phyllanthus
''Phyllanthus'' is the largest genus in the plant family Phyllanthace ...
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(Warren, 1913)
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Bastilla solomonensis
''Bastilla solomonensis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by George Hampson in 1913. It is found on the Solomon Islands (including Rennell Island), the Bismarck Islands, New Caledonia, Vanuatu, New Guinea, Australia (Queensla ...
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(Hampson, 1913)
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Bastilla simillima''
(Guenée, 1852)
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Bastilla subacuta''
(Bethune-Baker, 1906)
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Bastilla tahitiensis
''Bastilla tahitiensis'' is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Orhant in 2002. It is endemic to Tahiti and Moorea.
It was formerly considered to be a subspecies of ''Bastilla solomonensis
''Bastilla solomonensis'' is a moth o ...
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(Orhant, 2002)
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Bastilla vitiensis''
(Butler, 1886)
References
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*Holloway, J. D. & Miller, Scott E. (2003)
"The composition, generic placement and host-plant relationships of the ''joviana''-group in the ''Parallelia'' generic complex" ''Invertebrate Systematics''. 17: 111–128.
Moth genera
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