Amyna

Amyna is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1][2][3]

Amyna
Amyna virbioides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Subfamily:
Eustrotiinae
Genus:
Amyna

Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Berresa Walker, [1859]
  • Ilattia Walker, [1859]
  • Lochia Walker, 1865
  • Stridova Walker, 1869
  • Pteraetholix Grote, 1873
  • Chytoryza Grote, 1876
  • Hesperimorpha Saalmüller, 1880
  • Amynodes Warren, 1913
  • Formosamyna Strand, 1920
  • Niphosticta Turner, 1936
  • Trilophia Turner, 1943
  • Hurworthia Nye, 1975

Description

Their thoraxes are tuftless. The abdomen is slender and tapering to a point with the slight dorsal tufts. Palpi more slender and reaching above vertex of head. Forewings are shorter and broader, where the costa more arched towards apex.[4]

Species
  • Amyna acuta Berio, 1960
  • Amyna albiloba (Warren, 1913)
  • Amyna amplificans (Walker, 1858)
  • Amyna apicalis (Walker, 1865)
  • Amyna apicipuncta (Turner, 1936)
  • Amyna aroa (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
  • Amyna aurea Lucas, 1898
  • Amyna auriculata (Turner, 1903)
  • Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
  • Amyna bullula (Grote, 1873)
  • Amyna crocosticta Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna distigmata (Hampson, 1896)
  • Amyna flavirena Holloway, 1979
  • Amyna frontalis Strand, 1920
  • Amyna glaucoptera Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna griseola (Snellen, 1872)
  • Amyna indignata (Wileman & South, 1921)
  • Amyna insularum Schaus, 1923
  • Amyna leucoptera Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna leucostriga Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna magnifoveata Hampson, 1918
  • Amyna modesta (Warren, 1913)
  • Amyna monocampta Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna natalica Pinhey, 1975
  • Amyna natalis (Walker, [1859])
  • Amyna onthodes (Lower, 1903)
  • Amyna padanga (Swinhoe, 1919)
  • Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
  • Amyna renalis (Moore, 1882)
  • Amyna rubrirena Hampson, 1918
  • Amyna ruptirena Hampson, 1910
  • Amyna spilonota Lower, 1903
  • Amyna spissa (Warren, 1913)
  • Amyna stellata Butler, 1878
  • Amyna virbioides (Pagenstecher, 1907)

References
  1. Savela, Markku (August 1, 2019). "Amyna Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amyna". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Amyna Guenée, 1852". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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