Schinia, commonly called flower moths, is a large genus of moths belonging to the family Noctuidae. The genus has a Holarctic distribution with the vast majority of species being found in North America, many with a very restricted range and larval food plant.
Schinia rivulosa, the ragweed flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in North America from Quebec to Florida, west to Arizona, north to Oregon and North Dakota. There is one generation per year.
Schinia arcigera, the arcigera flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found in North America from Nova Scotia to Florida, west to Arizona and Idaho, north to Saskatchewan.
Schinia jaguarina, the jaguar flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found on North America's Great Plains from Saskatchewan and Alberta south to Texas, eastward on coast to Florida and westward in south to Arizona. In Mexico it is found down to Mexico City.
Schinia lucens, the leadplant flower moth or false indigo flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herbert Knowles Morrison in 1875. It is found in the central and western United States.
Schinia acutilinea, the angled gem or acute-lined flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1878. It is found in the dry southern portions of Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia, south across the plains and Great Basin to southern Arizona and California.
Schinia gracilenta, the slender flower moth or iva flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is found from the US states of New York to Florida and Nebraska to Arizona. The species is listed as endangered in Connecticut.
Schinia chrysella is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found throughout the central United States south to Monterry, Mexico.
Schinia lynx, the lynx flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1881. It is found in North America from Wisconsin, southern Ontario, Quebec and Maine, south to Florida and Texas. Records include Colorado, Iowa, Kansas, Nebraska, New York, Maryland, Oklahoma and Oregon.
Schinia meadi, or Mead's flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found in western North America from south central Saskatchewan and central Alberta west to south central Washington, south to Arizona and New Mexico.
Schinia nuchalis, the spotted sage moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1878. It is found from the Great Plains and Great Basin, from southern Saskatchewan, Alberta and British Columbia south to northern Arizona. The Eurasian Schinia scutosa is no longer considered a synonym of Schinia nuchalis.
Schinia persimilis, the persimilis flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is found from in western North America from east central Alberta and the Cypress Hills in Saskatchewan north to the southern Yukon, west and south to Colorado, Utah, California and Oregon.
Schinia suetus is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1873. It is widespread in the mountains of western North America, from southern Alberta west to British Columbia, south at least to Colorado and California, east to Idaho and New Mexico.
Schinia villosa, the little dark gem, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1864. In North America, it is mostly a western mountain species, however it has also been found across the plains eastward across Alberta and Saskatchewan to southern Manitoba. To the west it is found up to the coast ranges of Washington and British Columbia, south to Arizona.
Schinia septentrionalis, the northern flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in North America from Missouri to Quebec to South Carolina and Louisiana. Records include Colorado, Oklahoma, South Dakota and Texas. It is listed as threatened in the US state of Connecticut.
Schinia nundina, the goldenrod flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is found in North America from Minnesota to southern Ontario and Nova Scotia, south to central Florida and southern Texas. Records include Arizona, Kansas, Nebraska, New York, Maryland, Oklahoma and South Carolina.
Schinia trifascia, the three-lined flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1818. It is found in North America from Ontario and Massachusetts south to Florida and west to Arizona, Colorado and Wyoming. It has also been reported from Louisiana.
Heliothinae is a small, cosmopolitan subfamily of moths in the family Noctuidae, with about 400 described species worldwide. It includes a number of economically significant agricultural pest species, such as Helicoverpa armigera and Helicoverpa zea.
Schinia alencis is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is found from south-eastern Colorado to south-eastern Arizona east to western Oklahoma, northern Texas to south-western and south-eastern Texas.
Schinia nubila, the camphorweed flower moth or brown flower moth, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Herman Strecker in 1876. It is found from the US states of Oklahoma to New Jersey, south to Florida and Texas. Its range is expanding in the northeast. Furthermore, recorded from Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, North Carolina, South Carolina and Maryland.
