Gortyna (moth)
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Gortyna 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
- Gortyna basalipunctata Gaeser, 1888
- Gortyna borelii Pierret, 1837 (= Hydroecia leucographa)
- Gortyna flavago (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
- Gortyna flavinaGortyna flavinaGortyna flavina is a moth in the Noctuidae family. It is found in Taiwan....
Hreblay & Ronkay, 1997 - Gortyna fortis (Butler, 1878)
- Gortyna franciscae (Turati, 1913)
- Gortyna golestanensis (Fibiger & Zahiri, 2006)
- Gortyna hethitica Hacker, Kuhna & Gross, 1986
- Gortyna imitans Hreblay & Ronkay, 1997
- Gortyna joannisi (Boursin, 1928)
- Gortyna moesiaca Herrich-Schäffer, [1849]
- Gortyna osmana Hacker & Kuhna, 1986
- Gortyna plumbeata Hreblay & Ronkay, 1997
- Gortyna plumbitincta Hreblay & Ronkay, 1997
- Gortyna puengeleri (Turati, 1909)
- Gortyna rungsi (Boursin, 1963)
- Gortyna xanthenes Germar, [1842]