Simplicia (moth)
Simplicia | |
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Herminiinae-Simplicia Sp.-13mm25 | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Herminiinae |
Genus: | Simplicia Guenée, 1854 |
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Simplicia is a genus of litter moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1854.[1][2]
Description[]
Its palpi are sickle shaped, with the second joint reaching above the vertex of the head. Third joint long and naked. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore tibia of male covered by a sheath containing masses of flocculent (wooly) scales. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. Areole very narrow with vein 10 given off far beyond it in male and from it in female. The discocellulars almost obsolete. Hindwings with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.[3]
Species[]
- Simplicia armatalis (Walker, 1866)
- Simplicia bimarginata (Walker, 1864)
- Simplicia buffetti
- Simplicia butesalis (Walker, 1858)
- Simplicia caeneusalis (Walker, 1859)
- Simplicia cornicalis (Fabricius, 1794) (syn: Simplicia caeneusalis (Walker, [1859]))
- Simplicia erebina (Butler, 1887)
- Simplicia extinctalis (Zeller, 1852)
- Guillermet, 2005
- Simplicia inarcualis
- Simplicia inareolalis
- Simplicia inflexalis Guenée, 1854
- Simplicia lautokiensis
- Simplicia mistacalis Guenée, 1854
- Swinhoe, 1919
- Guenée, 1862
- (Mabille, 1880)
- Holloway, 2008
- Simplicia rectalis Eversmann, 1842
- Guenée, 1854
- A. E. Prout, 1929
- Simplicia ryukyuensis
- Simplicia subterminalis
- Prout, 1928
References[]
- ^ Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (March 19, 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
- ^ Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Simplicia Guenée, 1854". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved January 31, 2020.
- Savela, Markku. "Simplicia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 2, 2018.
- Data related to Simplicia at Wikispecies
Categories:
- Herminiinae
- Moth genera
- Herminiinae stubs