Egira (moth)
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Egira is a moth
genus
in the family
Noctuidae
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Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
genus
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
in the family
Family (biology)
In biological classification, family is* a taxonomic rank. Other well-known ranks are life, domain, kingdom, phylum, class, order, genus, and species, with family fitting between order and genus. As for the other well-known ranks, there is the option of an immediately lower rank, indicated by the...
Noctuidae
Noctuidae
The Noctuidae or owlet moths are a family of robustly-built moths that includes more than 35,000 known species out of possibly 100,000 total, in more than 4,200 genera. They constitute the largest family in the Lepidoptera....
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Species
- Egira acronyctoides (Wileman, 1914)
- Egira alternans (Walker, [1857]) (syn: Egira onychina (Guenée, 1852))
- Egira ambigua Galsworthy, 1997
- Egira anatolica (Hering, 1933)
- Egira baueri (Buckett, 1967, [1968])
- Egira cognata (Smith, 1894)
- Egira conspicillarisEgira conspicillarisThe Silver Cloud is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from the Iberian Peninsula to Russia. In the north it ranges to the Baltic Region and in the south to North Africa. It is also present in Western Asia, up to the Caspian Sea.The wingspan is 36-44 mm...
(Linnaeus, 1758) - Egira contaminata (Chang, 1991)
- Egira crucialis (Harvey, 1875)
- Egira curialis (Grote, 1873) (syn: Egira candida (Smith, 1894))
- Egira dolosa (Grote, 1880)
- Egira draudti (Hacker, 1993)
- Egira fatima Hreblay, 1994
- Egira februalis (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
- Egira hiemalisEgira hiemalisEgira hiemalis is a moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found from British Columbia south to California.The wingspan is about 36 mm. Adults are on wing from April to May....
(Grote, 1874) - Egira natalensis (Butler, 1875)
- Egira ornata Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Egira papae Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Egira perigraphoides Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Egira perlubens (Grote, 1881)
- Egira phahompoki Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999
- Egira purpurea (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
- Egira rubrica (Harvey, 1878)
- Egira saxea (Leech, 1889)
- Egira servadei Berio, 1982
- Egira simplex (Walker, 1865)
- Egira subterminata (Hampson, 1905)
- Egira tiboriEgira tiboriEgira tibori is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is endemic to the eastern part of the Mediterranean, the Balkans, Turkey, Israel, Lebanon and Jordan.Adults are on wing from February to May. There is one generation per year....
Hreblay, 1994 - Egira vanduzeei (Barnes & Benjamin, 1926)
- Egira variabilis (Smith, 1891)