Phaedropsis
Encyclopedia
Phaedropsis is a genus
of moth
s of the Crambidae
family.
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...
of moth
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...
s of the Crambidae
Crambidae
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of Lepidoptera . They are quite variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae taking up closely folded postures on grass-stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies include brightly coloured and patterned insects which rest in...
family.
Species
- Phaedropsis alitemeralis (Dyar, 1914)
- Phaedropsis beckeri Munroe, 1995
- Phaedropsis bipunctalis (Hampson, 1895)
- Phaedropsis calanticalis (Druce, 1895)
- Phaedropsis chromalis (Guenée, 1854)
- Phaedropsis collustralis (Möschler, 1886)
- Phaedropsis domingalis (Schaus, 1920)
- Phaedropsis flavipennis (Kaye, 1901)
- Phaedropsis fuscicostalis (Hampson, 1895)
- Phaedropsis glutalis (Möschler, 1881)
- Phaedropsis hecalialis (Walker, 1859)
- Phaedropsis illepidalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1871)
- Phaedropsis illustralis (Dognin, 1913)
- Phaedropsis impeditalis (Herrich-Schäffer, 1871)
- Phaedropsis leialis (Dognin, 1906)
- Phaedropsis maritzalis (Schaus, 1920)
- Phaedropsis meropialis (Möschler, 1886)
- Phaedropsis placendalis (Möschler, 1890)
- Phaedropsis principaloides (Möschler, 1890)
- Phaedropsis principialis (Lederer, 1863)
- Phaedropsis simplalis (Guenée, 1854)
- Phaedropsis stictigramma (Hampson, 1912)
- Phaedropsis strigilalis (Hampson, 1899)
- Phaedropsis venadialis (Schaus, 1920)