Anorthoa
Encyclopedia
Anorthoa is a moth
genus
in the family
Noctuidae
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Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Noctuidae
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....
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Species
- Anorthoa angustipennis (Monima, 1926)
- Anorthoa fabiani (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998)
- Anorthoa munda – Twin-Spotted Quaker (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
- Anorthoa rubrocinerea (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998)