Maxera

Maxera
Maxera lophocera
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Calpinae
Genus:	Maxera Walker, 1865
Type species
Maxera subocellata Walker, 1865
Synonyms
ParathermesHampson, 1902

Maxera is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae described by Francis Walker in 1865.

Species

Some species of this genus are: ^[1]

• Maxera arizanensis Wileman 1914
• Maxera atripunctata (Hampson, 1910)
• Maxera bathyscia D. S. Fletcher, 1961
• Maxera brachypecten Hampson, 1926
• Maxera brunneoasperus Griveaud & Viette, 1962
• Maxera digoniata (Hampson, 1902)
• Maxera discosticta Hampson 1897
• Maxera euryptera Hampson, 1926
• Maxera kanshireiensis
• Maxera inclusa (Strand, 1912)
• Maxera laportei (Viette, 1979)
• Maxera lophocera (Hampson, 1910)
• Maxera marchalii (Boisduval, 1833)
• Maxera nigriceps (Walker, 1858)
• Maxera nova (Viette, 1956)
• Maxera oblita Moore 1882
• Maxera pallidula (Butler, 1875)
• Maxera subocellata Walker, 1865
• Maxera zygia (Wallengren, 1863)

References

1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Maxera Walker, 1865". Afromoths. Retrieved March 24, 2018.

• Walker, 1865. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum (33): 809
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.