Ocnogyna

Ocnogyna
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subtribe: Spilosomina
Genus: Ocnogyna
Lederer, 1853
Type species
Chelonia zoraida
De Graslin, [1837] 1836
Synonyms
  • Pachylischia Rambur, 1866
  • Nototrachus Rambur, 1866
  • Somatrichia Kirby, 1892

Ocnogyna is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family from Western Eurasia. One aberrant species, Ocnogyna parasita, has females with non-functional wings, and because of this was formerly placed in its own genus Somatrichia, but is now in Ocnogyna.[1]

Species

References

  1. "Fauna Europaea catalog". Faunaeur.org. Retrieved 2012-09-11.


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