''Drasteria'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
of
moth
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...
.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
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Drasteria aberrans''
Staudinger, 1888
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Drasteria adumbrata
''Drasteria adumbrata'', the shadowy arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by Hans Hermann Behr in 1870. It is found from coast to coast in southern Canada, south in the west to California ...
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Behr, 1870
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Drasteria antiqua''
Staudinger, 1889
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Drasteria austera''
John, 1921
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Drasteria axuana
''Drasteria axuana'' is a moth of the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well- ...
''
Püngeler, 1906
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Drasteria biformata''
H. Edwards, 1878
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Drasteria cailino
''Drasteria cailino'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Alexandre Louis Lefèbvre de Cérisy in 1827. It is found in southern Europe, the Near East and Middle East up to the western Himalayas in the east. In the Levant, severa ...
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Lefèbvre, 1827
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Drasteria cashmirensis''
Hampson, 1894
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Drasteria catocalis''
Staudinger, 1882
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Drasteria caucasica''
Kolenati, 1846
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Drasteria chinensis''
Alphéraky, 1892
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Drasteria coenobita''
(Kruger, 1939)
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Drasteria convergens''
Mustelin, 2006
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Drasteria divergens''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria edwardsii
''Drasteria edwardsii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Washington, through Oregon to California.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the opposite wingti ...
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Behr, 1870
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Drasteria eubapta''
Hampson, 1926
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Drasteria flexuosa''
Ménétriés, 1848
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Drasteria fumosa
''Drasteria fumosa'', the smoky arches, is a species of moth in the family Erebidae first described by Strecker in 1898. It is found from the US state of California east to Utah and Texas.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird ...
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Strecker, 1898
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Drasteria grandirena
''Drasteria grandirena'', the figure-seven moth or great kidney, is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809. It is found in North America from Ontario, Quebec and Nova Scotia, south to at least Georgia west ...
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Haworth, 1809
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Drasteria graphica
''Drasteria graphica'', the graphic moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is found in the United States in coastal dunes from Maine to Florida, west to Mississippi. It is also found ...
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Hübner, 1818
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Drasteria habibazel''
Dumont, 1922
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Drasteria hastingsii
''Drasteria hastingsii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from British Columbia south to Oregon and California
California () is a U.S. state, state in the Western United States that lies on the West Coast of the United State ...
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(Edwards, 1881)
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Drasteria herzi
''Drasteria herzi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Sergei Alphéraky in 1895. It is found in Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Khirgizia, Turkey, northern Iran, Israel, Jordan and Sanai
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sa ...
''
Alphéraky, 1895
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Drasteria howlandii
''Drasteria howlandii'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from British Columbia and Saskatchewan south through the western parts of the United States from Washington south to Arizona and Texas.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or jus ...
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Grote, 1864
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Drasteria hudsonica
''Drasteria hudsonica'', the northern arches, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote and Coleman Townsend Robinson in 1865. It is found from Alaska and Yukon to California, east to New Mexi ...
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Grote & Robinson, 1865
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Drasteria hyblaeoides''
Moore, 1878
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Drasteria indecora''
John, 1910
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Drasteria inepta
''Drasteria inepta'', the inept drasteria, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from Arizona to Texas, north to Colorado and Utah.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip ...
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H. Edwards, 1881
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Drasteria ingeniculata''
Morrison, 1875
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Drasteria kabylaria''
Bang-Haas, 1906
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Drasteria kusnezovi''
John, 1910
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Drasteria langi''
Ershov, 1874
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Drasteria maculosa''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria mirifica''
H. Edwards, 1878
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Drasteria mongoliensis''
Wiltshire, 1969
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Drasteria nephelostola''
Hampson, 1926
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Drasteria nubicola''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria obscurata''
Staudinger, 1882
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Drasteria occulta''
H. Edwards, 1881
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Drasteria ochracea''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria oranensis''
Rothschild, 1920
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Drasteria pallescens''
Grote & Robinson, 1866
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Drasteria pamira''
John, 1921
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Drasteria parallela''
Crabo & Mustelin, 2013
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Drasteria perplexa''
H. Edwards, 1884
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Drasteria petricola''
Walker, 1858
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Drasteria philippina''
Austaut, 1880
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Drasteria picta''
Christoph, 1877
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Drasteria pictoides''
Poole, 1989
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Drasteria pulchra''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1918
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Drasteria pulverosa''
Wiltshire, 1969
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Drasteria rada''
Boisduval, 1848
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Drasteria sabulosa''
H. Edwards, 1881
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Drasteria saisani''
Staudinger, 1882
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Drasteria scolopax''
Alphéraky, 1892
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Drasteria scrupulosa
''Drasteria scrupulosa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in North America, where it has been recorded from California, Idaho, Nevada, Oregon and Utah
Utah is a landlocked state in the Mountain states, Mountain West subregi ...
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H. Edwards, 1878
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Drasteria sculpta''
Püngeler, 1904
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Drasteria sesquilina''
Staudinger, 1888
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Drasteria sesquistria''
Eversmann, 1854
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Drasteria sinuosa''
Staudinger, 1884
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Drasteria stretchii''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria tejonica''
Behr, 1870
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Drasteria tenera''
Staudinger, 1877
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Drasteria walshi''
Metlevski, 2009
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Drasteria yerburii''
Butler, 1892
Former species
* ''
Drasteria albifasciata''
(Gaede, 1939)
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Drasteria albofasciata''
(John, 1917)
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Drasteria altivaga''
(Alphéraky, 1893)
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Drasteria chlorophis''
Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
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Drasteria judaica''
Hampson, 1926
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Drasteria nichollae''
(Hampson, 1926)
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Drasteria pica
''Drasteria yerburyi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of wel ...
''
(Brandt, 1939)
* ''Drasteria stuebeli'' is now known as ''
Anydrophila stuebeli''
Calberla, 1891
References
* , 2013: Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on ''Chytolita'' Grote (Erebidae) and ''Hydraecia'' Guenée (Noctuidae). ''Zookeys'' 264: 85-123. Abstract and full article: .
* , 2013: Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ''Zookeys'' 264: 227–236. Abstract and full article: .
* , 2003: Catocalinae & Plusiinae. ''Noctuidae Europaeae'' Volume 10: 1–452.
* ; 2010: Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico
''ZooKeys'' 40: 1–239.
* , 2009, ''A new species of Drasteria'' Hübner (Noctuidae, Catocalinae, Melipotini) from Arizona, with comments on the genus. ''Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society'' 63 (1): 1-10.
* , 2006: Taxonomy of southern California Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of twenty one new species. ''Zootaxa'' 1278: 1-47. Abstract
* , 1983: Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) from Mongolia. Noctuidae, Quadrifinae. ''Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici'' 75: 229–246. Full article
External links
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* Mustelin, T. (2006). ''Zootaxa'' 1278: 1-47.
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Drasteria,
Melipotini
Noctuoidea genera