''Hyperstrotia'' 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 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-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. The genus was erected by

George Hampson Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...

in 1910.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily

Phytometrinae The Boletobiinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae, containing about 956 species. The taxon was described by Achille Guenée in 1858. Taxonomy Phylogenetic analysis has determined that several subfamilies of the family Erebidae tha ...

within

or in the subfamily

Acontiinae Acontiinae is a subfamily of bird dropping moths in the family Noctuidae. There are more than 50 genera and 430 described species in Acontiinae, found worldwide in temperate and tropical climates. Genera These 52 genera belong to the subfamily ...

of the family

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family (biology), family of moths. Taxonomically, they are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly ...

Species

* '' Hyperstrotia aetheria'' Grote, 1879 * ''

Hyperstrotia albida ''Hyperstrotia'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1910. Taxonomy The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Acontiinae of the ...

'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Hyperstrotia flaviguttata'' Grote, 1882 – yellow-spotted graylet moth * '' Hyperstrotia flavipuncta'' Leech, 1889 * '' Hyperstrotia inordinata'' Walker,

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/small> * '' Hyperstrotia macroplaga'' Hampson, 1907 * '' Hyperstrotia meeki'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Hyperstrotia molybdota'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Hyperstrotia nana'' Hübner, 1818 * '' Hyperstrotia ochreipuncta'' Wileman, 1914 * '' Hyperstrotia oletta'' Schaus, 1904 * ''

Hyperstrotia pervertens ''Hyperstrotia pervertens'', the dotted graylet, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was Species description, first described by William Barnes (entomologist), William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1918. It is found in woodlan ...

'' (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918) – dotted graylet moth * '' Hyperstrotia secta'' Grote, 1879 – black-patched graylet moth * '' Hyperstrotia semiochrea'' Hampson, 1898 * '' Hyperstrotia variata'' Wileman & West, 1929 * '' Hyperstrotia villificans'' Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 – white-lined graylet moth

References

Boletobiinae Noctuoidea genera {{Boletobiinae-stub