Amphipoea

Amphipoea
Amphipoea sp.
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Tribe:	Apameini
Genus:	Amphipoea Billberg, 1820

Amphipoea is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, found in the Holarctic realm.

Species

• Amphipoea americana Speyer, 1875– American ear moth
• Amphipoea asiatica (Burrows, 1911)
• Amphipoea aslanbeki Ronkay & Herczig, 1991
• Amphipoea bifurcata Gyulai & Ronkay, 1994
• Amphipoea burrowsi (Chapman, 1912)
• Amphipoea butleri (Leech, 1900)
• Amphipoea chovdica Gyulai, 1989
• Amphipoea cottlei (McDunnough, 1948)
• Amphipoea crinanensis (Burrows, 1908)– Crinan ear
• Amphipoea cuneata Gyulai & Ronkay, 1998
• Amphipoea distincta (Warren, 1911)
• Amphipoea erepta (Grote, 1881)
• Amphipoea fucosa (Freyer, 1830)– saltern ear moth
• Amphipoea interoceanica (Smith, 1899)– interoceanic ear moth
• Amphipoea keiferi (Benjamin, 1935)
• Amphipoea lucens (Freyer, 1845)– large ear moth
• Amphipoea lunata (Smith, 1891)
• Amphipoea malaisei (Nordström, 1931)
• Amphipoea maryamae Zahiri & Fibiger, 2006
• Amphipoea ochreola (Staudinger, 1882)
• Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761)– ear moth
• Amphipoea pacifica (Smith, 1899)
• Amphipoea rufibrunnea (Heydemann, 1942)
• Amphipoea senilis (Smith, 1892) (syn: Amphipoea flavostigma(Barnes & Benjamin, 1924))
• Amphipoea szabokyi Gyulai & Ronkay, 1990
• Amphipoea ussuriensis (Petersen, 1914)

Former species

• Amphipoea velata is now Loscopia velata (Walker, 1865)

Taxonomy

The genus Amphipoea was raised by the Swedish anatomist Gustaf Johan Billberg in 1820. Amphipoea refers to Amphi – round and poa – grass; i.e. the habitat of the moths. ^[1]

References

1. Emmet, A Maitland (1991). The Scientific Names of the British Lepidoptera. Their History and Meaning. Colchester: Harley Books. p. 213. ISBN   0 946589 28 3.

External links

• Amphipoea at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Zahiri, R. & Fibiger, M. (2006) Zootaxa 1244: 33-39