''Lyclene'' is a genus of lichen moths 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 ...

, subfamily

Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...

. The genus was erected by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1860.

Taxonomy

The genus is closely allied to ''

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'' or ''

Barsine Barsine (; c. 363–309 BC) was the daughter of a Persian father, Artabazus, satrap of Hellespontine Phrygia, and a Greek Rhodian mother, the sister of mercenaries Mentor of Rhodes and Memnon of Rhodes. Barsine became the wife of her uncl ...

'' and various of species are alternatively placed under these genera.

Species

Formerly placed here

References

* *Dubatolov, V. V. & Bucsek, K. (2013)
"New species of lichen-moths from South-East Asia (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea, Lithosiini)"
''Tinea''. 22 (4): 279–291. *Singh Kirti, J. & Singh Gill, N. (2009). "Description of four new species of the genus ''Lyclene'' Moore (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae) from India". ''Acta zoologica cracoviensia (B)''. 52 (1-2): 109–118. *Černý, K. (2012). "''Lyclene weidenhofferi'' sp. n. and ''Barsine delineata'' (Walker, 1854) discovered in Thailand (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini)". ''Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo''. N.F. 32 (3-4): 121–123.

External links

* Nudariina Moth genera {{Nudariina-stub