Biology:Drasteria

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Short description: Genus of moths

Drasteria
Drasteria convergens male.jpg
Drasteria convergens
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Melipotini
Genus: Drasteria
Hübner, 1818[1]
Synonyms
  • Aleucanitis Warren, 1913
  • Bolina Duponchel, 1845
  • Leucanitis Guenée, 1852
  • Syneda Guenée, 1852
  • Synedoida Edwards, 1878

Drasteria is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Species

The genus includes the following species:



Former species

  • Drasteria albifasciata (Gaede, 1939)
  • Drasteria albofasciata (John, 1917)
  • Drasteria altivaga (Alphéraky, 1893)
  • Drasteria chlorophis Herrich-Schäffer, 1869
  • Drasteria judaica Hampson, 1926
  • Drasteria nichollae (Hampson, 1926)
  • Drasteria pica (Brandt, 1939)
  • Drasteria stuebeli is now known as Anydrophila stuebeli Calberla, 1891

References

  • Crabo, L.; M. Davis; P. Hammond; T. Mustelin & J. Shepard, 2013: Five new species and three new subspecies of Erebidae and Noctuidae (Insecta, Lepidoptera) from Northwestern North America, with notes on Chytolita Grote (Erebidae) and Hydraecia Guenée (Noctuidae). Zookeys 264: 85-123. Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4304.
  • Lafontaine, J.D. & B.C. Schmidt, 2013: Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Zookeys 264: 227–236. Abstract and full article: doi:10.3897/zookeys.264.4443.
  • Goater, B. , L. Ronkay & M. Fibiger, 2003: Catocalinae & Plusiinae. Noctuidae Europaeae Volume 10: 1–452.
  • Lafontaine, J.D.; Schmidt, B.C. 2010: Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. ZooKeys, 40: 1–239. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414
  • Metlevski, Jan & Gregory Zolnerowich, 2009, A new species of Drasteria Hübner (Noctuidae, Catocalinae, Melipotini) from Arizona, with comments on the genus. Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society 63 (1): 1-10.
  • Mustelin, T., 2006: Taxonomy of southern California Erebidae and Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) with descriptions of twenty one new species. Zootaxa 1278: 1-47. Abstract: [1].
  • Ronkay, L., 1983: Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) from Mongolia. Noctuidae, Quadrifinae. Annales historico-naturales Musei nationalis hungarici 75: 229–246. Full article: [2].

External links

Wikidata ☰ Q731712 entry