''Grammodes'' 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 ...

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 ...

first described by

Achille Guenée Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomologist. Biography Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun. He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very ear ...

in 1852.

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head and minute third joint. Antennae almost simple in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and somewhat slender. Tibia clothed with rather long hair. Min tibia spiny. Forewings short and broad with somewhat acute apex. Larva with three pairs of abdominal prolegs.

Species

* '' Grammodes afrocculta'' Berio, 1956 * '' Grammodes arenosa'' Swinhoe, 1902 * '' Grammodes bifasciata'' Petagna, 1738 (syn: ''Grammodes chalciptera'' (Borkhausen, 1792), ''Grammodes linearis'' (Hübner, 1790), ''Grammodes paralellaris'' (Hübner, 1803)) * '' Grammodes boisdeffrii'' Oberthür, 1867 * '' Grammodes buchanani'' Rothschild, 1921 * '' Grammodes congenita'' Walker, 1858 * '' Grammodes congesta'' Berio, 1956 * '' Grammodes cooma'' Swinhoe, 1900 * '' Grammodes diagarmma'' Lower, 1903 * '' Grammodes euclidioides'' Guenée, 1852 (syn: ''Grammodes dubitans'' (Walker, 1858), ''Grammodes postfumida'' (Wiltshire, 1970)) * '' Grammodes geometrica'' (Fabricius, 1775) * '' Grammodes justa'' Walker, 1858 * '' Grammodes latifera'' Walker, 1870 * '' Grammodes marwitzi'' Gaede, 1914 * '' Grammodes microgonia'' (Hampson, 1910) * '' Grammodes monodonta'' Berio, 1956 (syn: ''Grammodes somaliensis'' Berio, 1956) * '' Grammodes netta'' Holland, 1897 * '' Grammodes occulta'' Berio, 1956 (syn: ''Grammodes samosira'' Kobes, 1985) * '' Grammodes ocellata'' Tepper, 1890 * '' Grammodes oculata'' Snellen, 1880 * '' Grammodes oculicola'' Walker, 1858 * '' Grammodes paerambar'' Brandt, 1939 * '' Grammodes pulcherrima'' Lucas, 1892 * '' Grammodes quaesita'' Swinhoe, 1901 * '' Grammodes stolida'' (Fabricius, 1775) – geometrician

References

* * Ophiusini Moth genera {{Erebinae-stub