Calophasidia

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Calophasidia
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Calophasidia dentifera
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Calophasidia
Hampson, 1908
Type species
Megalodes lucala
Swinhoe, 1902
Synonyms [1] [2]
  • ChelaproraHampson, 1926
  • StonychotaTurner, 1941

Calophasidia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1908. [1] [2] [3] [4] It is endemic to Australia. [2]

The classification of this genus is unclear. It has been placed in the subfamily Hadeninae [1] [4] or Acronictinae; [2] [3] Keegan and colleagues (2021) considered its placement within Noctuidae as undefined ( incertae sedis ). [5]

Species

There are six species: [1] [2]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Savela, Markku. "Calophasidia Hampson, 1908". Lepidoptera and some other life forms. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Genus Calophasidia Hampson, 1908". Australian Faunal Directory. Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water. Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  3. 1 2 Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Calophasidia​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  4. 1 2 Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (2023). "Calophasidia Hampson, 1908". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London . Retrieved 7 October 2024.
  5. ↑ Keegan, Kevin L; Rota, Jadranka; Zahiri, Reza; Zilli, Alberto; Wahlberg, Niklas; Schmidt, B Christian; Lafontaine, J Donald; Goldstein, Paul Z & Wagner, David L (2021). "Toward a stable global Noctuidae (Lepidoptera) taxonomy". Insect Systematics and Diversity. 5 (3): 1. doi: 10.1093/isd/ixab005 .


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