Plusia
| Plusia | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Plusia Ochsenheimer, 1816 |
Plusia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
Species
- Plusia contexta Grote, 1873
- Plusia festucae - Gold Spot Linnaeus, 1758
- Plusia magnimacula D. Handfield & L. Handfield, 2006
- Plusia manchurica Lempke, 1966
- Plusia nichollae Hampson, 1913
- Plusia putnami Grote, 1873
- Plusia rosanovi Nabokov, 1912[1]
- Plusia venusta Walker, 1865
References
- Handfield, D.; Handfield, L. (2006). "A new species of Plusia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from North America". The Canadian Entomologist 138 (6): 853–859. doi:10.4039/N06-041.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Plusia at funet.fi
- ↑ Writer Vladimir Nabokov paraphrased his father's description of the owlet moth Plusia rosanovi (as it appeared in Volume III of the four-volume Butterflies and Moths of the Russian Empire, 1912) in his posthumous essay "Father's Butterflies", printed in The Atlantic, April 2000: "How lovely it is, by the way, how one's eye is caressed by, the dark-cherry forewing, traversed by a mauve-pink stripe and adorned at its center by the golden emblem of its genus, in this instance a tapering, bowed half-moon -- and if it is hard to render the flowery velvet of the background, what is one to say of the 'emblem,' which, on the actual moth, resembles a dab of gilt redolent of turpentine, and must therefore be copied (and recopied!) in such a way that the painter's work transmits, besides all the rest, a resemblance to the work of a painter!"