Emarginea
Encyclopedia
Emarginea 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
- Emarginea anna Schaus, 1911
- Emarginea combusta (Walker, [1858])
- Emarginea dulcinea Dyar, 1921 (misspelling Emarginea dulcinia)
- Emarginea empyra Dyar, 1909
- Emarginea gammophora Guenée, 1852
- Emarginea minastes Dyar, 1920
- Emarginea niphoplaga Druce, 1909
- Emarginea nocea Dyar, 1912
- Emarginea oleagina (Dognin, 1889)
- Emarginea pallida (Smith, 1902)
- Emarginea partitella (Maassen, 1890)
- Emarginea percara (Morrison, 1875)