''Phytometra'' 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 ...
of
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 described by
Adrian Hardy Haworth
Adrian Hardy Haworth (19 April 1767, in Kingston upon Hull, Hull – 24 August 1833, in Chelsea, London, Chelsea) was an England, English entomologist, botanist and carcinologist.
Family
The younger son of Benjamin Haworth, of Haworth Hall and ...
in 1809.
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
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 ...
or in the subfamily
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 ...
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
Some species of this genus are:
* ''
Phytometra africana''
(Snellen, 1872)
* ''
Phytometra apicata''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1916
* ''
Phytometra carnea
''Phytometra'' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Taxonomy
The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Calpinae of ...
''
(Prout A. E., 1922)
* ''
Phytometra coniota''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra curvifera''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra duplicalis''
(Walker, 1866)
* ''
Phytometra ernestinana''
Blanchard, 1840 – Ernestine's moth
* ''
Phytometra euchroa''
Hampson, 1918
* ''
Phytometra formosalis''
Walker, 1866
* ''
Phytometra haemaceps''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''
Phytometra haematoessa''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''
Phytometra helesusalis''
(Walker, 1859)
* ''
Phytometra heliriusalis''
(Walker, 1859)
* ''
Phytometra hypopsamma''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra laevis''
Swinhoe, 1901
* ''
Phytometra lentistriata''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''
Phytometra luna''
Zerny, 1927
* ''
Phytometra magalium''
(Townsend, 1958)
* ''
Phytometra nigrogemmea''
Romieux, 1943
* ''
Phytometra nyctichroa''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra obliqualis''
Dyar, 1912
* ''
Phytometra orgiae''
Grote, 1875
* ''
Phytometra olivescens''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''
Phytometra opsiphora''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra ossea''
(Saalmüller, 1891)
* ''
Phytometra pentheus''
(Fawcett, 1916)
* ''
Phytometra pyralomima''
(Wiltshire, 1961)
* ''
Phytometra rhodopa''
(Bethune-Baker, 1911)
* ''
Phytometra rhodarialis''
Walker, 1859 – pink-bordered yellow moth
* ''
Phytometra sacraria''
(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
* ''
Phytometra sanctiflorentis''
Boisduval, 1834
* ''
Phytometra signifera''
(Hampson, 1926)
* ''
Phytometra silona''
(Schaus, 1893)
* ''
Phytometra subflavalis''
(Walker, 1865)
* ''
Phytometra umbrifera''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''
Phytometra viridaria''
Clerck, 1759 – small purple-barred
* ''
Phytometra zotica''
(Viette, 1956)
References
*
Boletobiinae
Noctuoidea genera
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