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.
Pantheinae is a small subfamily of moth family Noctuidae. It used to be considered a family, under the name Pantheidae.
Panthea coenobita is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in North Europe, East Europe and Southern Europe, the central and northern European part of Russia, Japan, Korea, northern China, the Russian Far East, southern and western Siberia and Turkey.
Panthea acronyctoides, the black zigzag or tufted spruce caterpillar, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1861. It is found in North America from Newfoundland to British Columbia and adjacent northern states, south in the west to Colorado, south in the east to New England and Kentucky.
Panthea furcilla is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found across the boreal forest region of Canada west to the Rocky Mountains, and in the eastern parts of the United States, from Maine to Florida, west to Texas, north to Indiana and Ohio.
Protogygia whitesandsensis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the White Sands National Park, Otero County, New Mexico. The length of the forewings is 14–17 mm.
Protogygia biclavis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in the White Sands National Park, Otero County, New Mexico as well as California, Utah and Arizona.
Acronicta afflicta, the afflicted dagger moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Canada, the United States as well as northern Mexico.
Panthea gigantea is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout much of the warmer and drier regions of western North America from south-central British Columbia, south to the state of Durango in Mexico and from the Black Hills of South Dakota, western Nebraska and the Texas Panhandle west to Washington, Oregon and the coast of California.
Panthea is a genus of the owlet moth family, Noctuidae. The word Panthea is from Greek, meaning "all of the flowers".
Panthea reducta is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has been collected at an elevation of 1,800 m (5,900 ft) in a Hispaniolan pine forest in Sierra de Bahoruco National Park in the Dominican Republic.
Panthea judyae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has been collected in the Mogollon Mountains and Big Burro Mountains of south-western New Mexico, the Huachuca Mountains of south-eastern Arizona, and the Sierra Madre Occidental of northern Mexico, at elevations of 1800–2400 m.
Panthea guatemala is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has been collected in the mountains of Guatemala and the states of Oaxaca and Chiapas in adjacent southern Mexico at elevations of 1580–1850 m.
Panthea greyi is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It has been collected in the mountains of Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and southern Utah, at elevations of 1524–2545 m.
Panthea virginarius, the Cascades panthea, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is mainly found west and north of the Great Basin, from the coast of southern California northward to the Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia and the Alaskan Panhandle, eastward to central California, northern Nevada, Idaho, north-western Wyoming, western Montana, and south-western Alberta. A disjunct population is found in the Cypress Hills of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
Bryolymnia viridata is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Leon F. Harvey in 1876. It is found in the US in western California from Sonoma County north of San Francisco southward to San Diego County.
Schinia chryselloides is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found in Colorado from the base of the foothills in Jefferson County, east to Lincoln County, in extreme south-eastern Colorado, south to south-eastern Socorro County, New Mexico, and east to the south-eastern panhandle of Texas and extreme southern Texas.
Schinia immaculata is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is endemic to the area surrounding the Colorado River in the Grand Canyon in Coconino County, Arizona.
Lasionycta poca is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1923. It is found throughout the Rocky Mountains of Alberta, westward to the Coast Range in western British Columbia and southward in the Cascades to Okanogan County, Washington.
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.
