Blepharosis
Encyclopedia
Blepharosis 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.
Species
- Blepharosis anachoretoides (Alphéraky, 1892)
- Blepharosis bryocharis Boursin, 1964
- Blepharosis dianthoecina (Staudinger, 1895)
- Blepharosis griseirufa (Hampson, 1894)
- Blepharosis illecebrosa (Püngeler, 1906)
- Blepharosis lama (Püngeler, 1900)
- Blepharosis paspa (Püngeler, 1900)
- Blepharosis poecila (Draudt, 1950)
- Blepharosis retracta (Draudt, 1950)
- Blepharosis retrahens (Draudt, 1950)
- Blepharosis smaragdistis (Draudt, 1950)
- Blepharosis sublimbatus (Püngeler, 1899)
- Blepharosis sumbarginata (Bang-Haas 1927)