Metopoceras | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Subfamily: | Acontiinae |
Genus: | Metopoceras Guenee, 1850 |
Pyrgus is a genus in the skippers butterfly family, Hesperiidae, known as the grizzled skippers. The name "grizzled skipper" best describes this genus, but in some countries the name "checkered" or "chequered skipper" is applied to some species. Strictly speaking, "chequered skippers" applies to butterflies of the genus Carterocephalus. They occur in the Holarctic with an additional group of species extending to the Neotropic.
Aporia, the black-veined whites or blackveins, is a genus of pierid butterflies found in the Palearctic region.
Neptis is a large genus of butterflies of Old World tropics subtropics. They are commonly called sailer butterflies or sailers, or more precisely typical sailers to distinguish them from the related blue sailer (Pseudoneptis).
Myopsyche is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1898.
Pyrausta is a speciose genus of moths of the family Crambidae. The genus was erected by Franz von Paula Schrank in 1802.
Chortodes is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Karana is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Trigonophora is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.
Sabulodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857.
Perrotia is a genus of skippers in the family Hesperiidae.
Ditrigona is a genus of moths belonging to the subfamily Drepaninae. The genus was erected by Frederic Moore in 1888.
Metopoceras omar is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Charles Oberthür in 1887. It is widespread through the Palearctic eremic (desert) zone from north-western Africa to the Near East and Middle East.
Metopoceras kneuckeri is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Hans Rebel in 1903. It is found from northwest Africa to Pakistan.
Peridea is a genus of moths of the family Notodontidae described by Stephens in 1828.
Heteropsis is an Afrotropical butterfly genus from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.
Amauta is a genus of moths within the family Castniidae. It was described by Constant Vincent Houlbert in 1918.
Somabrachys is a genus of moths in the Somabrachyidae family.
Strabena is an Afrotropical butterfly genus endemic to Madagascar from the subfamily Satyrinae in the family Nymphalidae.