| Ophyx eurrhoa | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Ophyx |
| Species: | O. eurrhoa |
| Binomial name | |
| Ophyx eurrhoa | |
| Synonyms | |
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Ophyx eurrhoa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.
The forewings are brown with a fuzzy dark crossline and a dark spot near the wingtip. [2]
The Calpinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840. This subfamily includes many species of moths that have a pointed and barbed proboscis adapted to piercing the skins of fruit to feed on juice, and in the case of the several Calyptra species of vampire moths, to piercing the skins of mammals to feed on blood. The subfamily contains some large moths with wingspans longer than 5 cm (2 in).
Ophyx is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.
Ophyx crinipes is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea.
Ophyx ochroptera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland and New South Wales. The habitat consists of rainforests.
The Cocytiini are a tribe of moths in the family Erebidae. Adults of some members of the subfamily, especially in the genus Serrodes, have a proboscis capable of piercing fruit skins, allowing the moth to drink the fruit juice.
Ophyx pseudoptera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Oswald Bertram Lower in 1903. It is found in Papua, Papua New Guinea and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. The habitat consists of lowland areas.
Ophyx excisa is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Gustaaf Hulstaert in 1924. It is found in Papua, Indonesia. The habitat consists of hot lowland forests.
Ophyx inextrema is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Prout in 1926. It is found in Papua and on Buru in the Maluku Islands.
Ophyx owgarra is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1906. It is found in Papua and Papua New Guinea. The habitat consists of mountainous areas.
Ophyx bilinea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in New Ireland.
Ophyx chionopasta is a moth in the family Erebidae. Endemic to Papua, Indonesia, it was first described by George Hampson in 1926.
Ophyx striata is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1926. It is found in Papua, Indonesia, where it has only been recorded from Fakfak, the type locality.
Ophyx deformata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
Ophyx elliptica is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Solomon Islands.
Ophyx loxographa is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
Ophyx maculosus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on New Caledonia.
Ophyx meeki is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.
Ophyx prereducta is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found on the Solomon Islands.
Ophyx talesea is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in New Britain.
Ophyx triangulata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Indonesia (Batchian).