Poppaea (moth)

Poppaea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Poppaea ; Fawcett, 1916
Species:	P. sabina
Binomial name
	Poppaea sabina; Fawcett, 1916

Last updated June 21, 2025

Poppaea is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae containing the sole species Poppaea sabina, known from East Africa.^[1]^[2] The moth's namesake was most likely Roman emperor, Nero's, second wife, Poppaea Sabina.

References

↑ Fawcett, J. M. (1916). "Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911-1913". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 707–737. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1916.tb02043.x.
↑ Beccaloni G., Scoble M., Kitching I., Simonsen T., Robinson G., Pitkin B., Hine A. & Lyal C. (2016). LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (version 12.3, Jan 2012). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th January 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/b151bb83eb41665a10252e3ef4ba1330/source/tree Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.

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[1] Fawcett, J. M. (1916). "Notes on a collection of Heterocera made by Mr. W. Feather in British East Africa, 1911-1913". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London: 707–737. doi:10.1111/j.1096-3642.1916.tb02043.x.

[2] Beccaloni G., Scoble M., Kitching I., Simonsen T., Robinson G., Pitkin B., Hine A. & Lyal C. (2016). LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (version 12.3, Jan 2012). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th January 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/b151bb83eb41665a10252e3ef4ba1330/source/tree Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858.

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