''Pericyma'' 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 ...

. The genus was erected by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1851.

Species

*''Pericyma albidens'' (Walker, 1865) southern India *''Pericyma albidentaria'' (Freyer, 1842) Greece, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Kasakhstan, from (Asia Minor, Middle East) - Afghanistan, Turkestan *''Pericyma andrefana'' (Viette, 1988) Madagascar *''Pericyma atrifusa'' (Hampson, 1902) Burkina Faso, Togo, Nigeria, Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Mozambique, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Eswatini, South Africa, Namibia *''Pericyma basalis'' (Saalmüller, 1891) Madagascar, Reunion *''Pericyma caffraria'' (Möschler, 1884) South Africa *''Pericyma cruegeri'' (Butler, 1886) Hong Kong, Taiwan, Vietnam, Thailand, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo, Philippines, New Guinea, Queensland *''Pericyma deducta'' (Walker, [1858]) South Africa *''Pericyma detersa'' (Walker, 1865) northern India, Pakistan *''Pericyma glaucinans'' (Guenée, 1852) Saudi Arabia, India (Silhet, Punjab), Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam, Malaysia, Taiwan, Java, Philippines *''Pericyma griveaudi'' (Laporte, 1973) *''Pericyma madagascana'' Hacker, 2016 Madagascar *''Pericyma mauritanica'' Hacker & Hausmann, 2010 Mauritania, Ivory Coast, Burkina Faso *''Pericyma mendax'' (Walker, [1858]) Mauritania, Senegal, Gambia, Ghana, Burkina Faso, Nigeria, Congo, Zaire, Botswana, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Namibia, Madagascar, Mauritius *''Pericyma metaleuca'' Hampson, 1913 Arabia, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania *''Pericyma minyas'' (Fawcett, 1916) Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania *''Pericyma polygramma'' Hampson, 1913 *''Pericyma pratti'' (Kenrick, 1917) Madagascar *''Pericyma scandulata'' (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) *''Pericyma schreieri'' Hacker, 2016 Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania *''Pericyma signata'' Brandt, 1939 Saudi Arabia, Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal *''Pericyma squalens'' Lederer, 1855 Turkey, Arabia, Libya, Egypt, Iran, Iraq, Jordan, Palestine, Tajikistan *''Pericyma subbasalis'' Hacker, 2016 Taiwan *''Pericyma subtusplaga'' Berio, 1984 Kenya *''Pericyma umbrina'' (Guenée, 1852) India, Kenya, Somalia, Namibia, South Africa *''Pericyma viettei'' (Berio, 1955) Madagascar *''Pericyma vinsonii'' (Guenée, 1862) Madagascar, Mauritius, Reunion

References

Pericymini Noctuoidea genera {{Erebinae-stub