Lyncestis (moth)

Lyncestis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Ophiusini
Genus:	Lyncestis Walker, 1857
Synonyms
JarasanaMoore, 1882

Lyncestis is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Species

• Lyncestis albisigna Wileman & South, 1920
• Lyncestis amphix (Cramer, 1777)
• Lyncestis dargei Hacker & Fibiger, 2006
• Lyncestis diascota Hampson, 1916
• Lyncestis grandidieri Viette, 1968
• Lyncestis knudlarseni Hacker & Fibiger, 2006
• Lyncestis kruegeri Hacker & Fibiger, 2006
• Lyncestis mahagonica Saalmüller, 1891
• Lyncestis melanoschista (Meyrick, 1897)
• Lyncestis metaleuca Hampson, 1896
• Lyncestis mimica Gaede, 1939
• Lyncestis phaeocrossa Turner, 1932
• Lyncestis subsignata (Walker, 1865)
• Lyncestis unilinea (Swinhoe, 1885)
• Lyncestis voeltzkowi Viette, 1965

References

• Hacker, H. & Fibiger, M. (2006). "Updated list of Micronoctuidae, Noctuidae (s.l.), and Hyblaeidae species of Yemen, collected during three expeditions in 1996, 1998 and 2000, with comments and descriptions of species." Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 12: 75-166.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database