Gyrtona
| Gyrtona | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Gyrtona Walker, 1863 [1] |
| Type species | |
| Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863 [2] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
Description
Similar to Stictoptera, differs in porrect palpi and more hairy. A large frontal tuft present. Antennae with long cilia in male and abdomen tuftless. Fore wings with slightly raised tufts at middle and end of cell.[3]
Species
- Gyrtona albicans (Pagenstecher 1900)
- Gyrtona erebenna (Mabille, 1900)
- Gyrtona eusema (Prout, 1926)
- Gyrtona ferrimissalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona inclusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona hylusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona lapidarioides Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona malgassica Kenrick, 1917
- Gyrtona niveivitta Swinhoe, 1905
- Gyrtona obliqualis Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona oxyptera Hampson, 1912
- Gyrtona perlignealis (Walker, 1863)
- Gyrtona polionota Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona polymorpha Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona pseudoquadratifera Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
- Gyrtona pyraloides (Walker, 1864)
- Gyrtona semicarbonalis Walker, 1863
References
- ↑ Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
- ↑ Gyrtona at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
External links
- Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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