Perinaenia

Perinaenia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Perinaenia
Butler, 1878
Species: P. accipiter
Binomial name
Perinaenia accipiter
(Felder, 1874)
Synonyms

Genus-level:
Anepilecta Warren, 1912

Species-level:
Perinaenia lignosa Butler, 1878
Spintherops accipiter Felder, 1874
Xestia accipiter (Felder, 1874)

Perinaenia is a monotypic genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. It is here provisionally treated as separate from Xestia, though it seems closely related. Containing only the single species P. accipiter, its closest living relatives are not resolved and thus the genus' eventual fate depends on how Xestia is treated.

This species is known from western China, northern India, Tibet and Japan.

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