| Cryphia rectilinea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Cryphia |
| Species: | C. rectilinea |
| Binomial name | |
| Cryphia rectilinea (Warren, 1909) | |
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Cryphia rectilinea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Balkans, Italy, Turkey, Lebanon and Israel.
Adults have a flight period from May to September. There is one generation per year.
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The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other families of the Noctuoidea. It was considered the largest family in Lepidoptera for a long time, but after regrouping Lymantriinae, Catocalinae and Calpinae within the family Erebidae, the latter holds this title now. Currently, Noctuidae is the second largest family in Noctuoidea, with about 1,089 genera and 11,772 species. However, this classification is still contingent, as more changes continue to appear between Noctuidae and Erebidae.
Noctuoidea is the superfamily of noctuid or "owlet" moths, and has more than 70,000 described species, the largest number of for any Lepidopteran superfamily. Its classification has not yet reached a satisfactory or stable state. Since the end of the 20th century, increasing availability of molecular phylogenetic data for this hugely successful radiation has led to several competing proposals for a taxonomic arrangement that correctly represents the relationships between the major lineages.
Acronictinae is a large subfamily of moths in the family Noctuidae.
Heliothis peltigera, the bordered straw, is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae.
Simyra dentinosa is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in south-eastern Caspian, Balkans, southern part of Eastern Europe, the Near East and Middle East. It has been introduced in the United States.
Acronicta pasiphae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in south-eastern Turkey, Iraq, Iran and Israel.
Craniophora melanisans is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to the oases of Saudi Arabia, Oman and Israel.
Cryphia tephrocharis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Turkey and the Balkans. In the Levant recorded from Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
Cryphia amseli is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is probably endemic to the arid part of the Jordan Rift Valley. It is known only from the type locality: Israel, Jericho, April 1952. It has not been observed since.
Cryphia labecula is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Lebanon mountain range the adjacent southern part of Turkey and Mount Hermon in the Golan Heights.
Cryphia moeonis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the Near East and Middle East, mainly in steppes and semi-deserts. In the Levant it is found in Jordan and Israel.
Cryphia paulina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in eastern Arabia, Israel, Jordan and the Sinai in Egypt.
Cryphia amasina is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from Near East and Middle East to Turkmenistan and the Arabian Peninsula. In the Levant there are fragmented populations in Lebanon, Jordan and Israel.
Victrix tabora is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the south-eastern part of the Taurus mountains in Turkey, the mountains of northern Iraq and western Iran and the Judean mountains in Israel.
Victrix marginelota is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to Lebanon and Israel.
Hypena munitalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Josef Johann Mann in 1861. It is found in Turkey, the Balkans and the Armenian-Caucasian region. In the Levant it has been recorded from Lebanon and Israel.
Zekelita antiqualis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Jacob Hübner in 1809. It is found in the Balkans, the Near East, the Caucasian region and in the Levant in Lebanon, Israel and Jordan.
Zekelita ravalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1851. It is found in the Near East and Middle East, Kazakhstan, Kirghizia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Egypt, Bahrain and the Levant.
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings (Catocala); litter moths (Herminiinae); tiger, lichen, and wasp moths (Arctiinae); tussock moths (Lymantriinae), including the arctic woolly bear moth ; piercing moths ; micronoctuoid moths (Micronoctuini); snout moths (Hypeninae); and zales, though many of these common names can also refer to moths outside the Erebidae. Some of the erebid moths are called owlets.
Hypena opulenta is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Hugo Theodor Christoph in 1877. Its reported native range expands from Eastern Europe Ukraine and Russia, south to Afghanistan, Iran, and Syria. In 2013, the moth larva was approved for release in North America to act as a biocontrol agent for invasive swallow-wort plants, Vincetoxicum rossicum and Vincetoxicum nigrum.