Caradrina

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Caradrina
Caradrina kadenii1.jpg
Caradrina kadenii
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subtribe: Caradrinina
Genus: Caradrina
Ochsenheimer, 1816
Synonyms [1]
  • AmphidrinaStaudinger, [1892]
  • PlatyperigeaSmith, 1894
  • PlatyperigaSmith, 1894
  • EremodrinaBoursin, 1937
  • ParadrinaBoursin, 1937
  • HymenodrinaBoursin, 1937
  • PseudophyllophilaBerio, 1977
  • BoursinidrinaHacker, 2004
  • KalchbergianaHacker, 2004
  • LevantrinaHacker, 2004
  • WeigertrinaHacker, 2004

Caradrina is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae, erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816 and divided into eight subgenera. [2] These include Paradrina and Platyperigea , which some authors treat as separate genera. By 1989, it comprised 189 described species. [3]

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Description

The moths' eyes are naked and without lashes. Their proboscises are well developed and palpi upturned, the second joints evenly clothed with hair. Thoraces and abdomens are tuftless, tibiae spineless and ciliae non-crenulate. [4]

Species

Caterpillar of genus Caradrina Caradrina ssp. caterpillar (side view) - Keila.jpg
Caterpillar of genus Caradrina

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References

  1. ↑ Savela, Markku, ed. (May 30, 2020). "Caradrina Ochsenheimer, 1816". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 10, 2020.
  2. ↑ Kazemi, E. and A. Shirvani. (2012). A checklist of Caradrina Ochsenheimer, 1816 (Lep.: Noctuidae, Xyleninae) of Iran. Archived May 3, 2013, at the Wayback Machine Natura Montenegrina, Podgorica 11(3) 443-53.
  3. ↑ Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Caradrina Ochsenheimer, 1816". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved March 28, 2018.
  4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. 1 2 Krüger, M. (2005). New genera and species of noctuid moths from Lesotho (Lepidoptera, Noctuidea: Noctuidae). African Entomology 13(1) 97–142.
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