Athetis
Encyclopedia
Athetis is a genus
of moth
s of the Noctuidae
family.
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...
of moth
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...
s of 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....
family.
Former species
- Athetis miranda is now Proxenus miranda (Grote, 1873)
- Athetis mindara is now Proxenus mindara (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
- Athetis mendosa is now Proxenus mendosa (McDunnough, 1927)