''Ocnogyna'' 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 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 ...
from western
Eurasia
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. The genus was erected by
Julius Lederer in 1853. One aberrant species, ''
Ocnogyna parasita'', has females with non-functional wings, and because of this was formerly placed in its own genus ''Somatrichia'', but is now in ''Ocnogyna''.
Species
* ''
Ocnogyna advena''
(Fabricius, 1787)
* ''
Ocnogyna anatolica''
Witt, 1980
* ''
Ocnogyna bellieri''
(Lederer, 1855)
** ''Ocnogyna bellieri berytta''
(Staudinger, 1895)
* ''
Ocnogyna boeticum''
Rambur, 1836
* ''
Ocnogyna clathrata''
(Lederer, 1855)
* ''
Ocnogyna corsicum''
Rambur, 1832
** ''Ocnogyna corsicum sardoa''
Staudinger, 1870
* ''
Ocnogyna herrichi''
Staudinger, 879
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Year 879 ( DCCCLXXIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Julian calendar.
Events
By place
Europe
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* '' Ocnogyna loewii'' (Zeller, 1846)
* '' Ocnogyna mutabilis'' Turati, 1924
* '' Ocnogyna nogelli'' Lederer, 1865
* '' Ocnogyna parasita'' (Hübner, 1790)
* '' Ocnogyna pudens'' (H. Lucas, 1853)
** ''Ocnogyna pudens leprieuri'' (Oberthür, 1878)
* '' Ocnogyna zoraida'' Graslin, 837
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Events
By place Byzantine Empire
* Byzantine–Arab War: Emperor Theophilos leads a massive Byzantine expeditionary force into Mesopotamia. ...
1836
** ''Ocnogyna zoraida hemigena'' (Graslin, 1850)
References
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Spilosomina
Moth genera
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