''Laspeyria'' 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 ...

erected by

Ernst Friedrich Germar Ernst Friedrich Germar (3 November 1786 – 8 July 1853) was a German professor and director of the Mineralogy, Mineralogical Museum at Halle, Saxony-Anhalt, Halle. As well as being a mineralogist he was interested in entomology and particularly ...

in 1810.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the subfamilies

Catocalinae The Catocalinae are a subfamily of noctuoid moths, placed in family Noctuidae. In the alternative arrangement, where the Noctuidae are reduced to the core group around the Noctuinae, the present lineage is abolished, the upranked Catocalini be ...

Calpinae The Calpinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840. This subfamily includes many species of moths that have a pointed and barbed proboscis adapted to piercing the skins of fruit to feed on ju ...

within either the families

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

* '' Laspeyria albina'' Wehrli * ''

Laspeyria emarginata ''Laspeyria'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Ernst Friedrich Germar in 1810. Taxonomy The genus has previously been classified in the subfamilies Catocalinae or Calpinae within either the families Erebidae or Noctuidae. ...

'' Hüfnagel, 1767 * '' Laspeyria flexula'' Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775 — beautiful hook-tip

* '' Laspeyria flexularia'' Hübner, 1778 * '' Laspeyria grisea'' Lempke, 1949 * '' Laspeyria impuncta'' Lempke, 1949 * '' Laspeyria lilacina'' Warren, 1913 * '' Laspeyria obscura'' Lempke, 1949 * '' Laspeyria rectilinealis'' Graeser, 1888 * '' Laspeyria signata'' Lempke, 1949 * '' Laspeyria sinuata'' Fabricius, 1777

References

Boletobiinae Noctuoidea genera {{Boletobiinae-stub