Bleptina

Bleptina is a genus of litter moths of the family Erebidae. It was erected by Achille Guenée in 1854.[1][2][3][4]

Bleptina
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Herminiinae
Genus: Bleptina
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854
Synonyms
  • Opotura Walker, [1859]
  • Anagoa Möschler, 1886

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching far above vertex of head. Third joint long with a tuft of hair on inner side. Antennae fasciculated (bundled) in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) to form the areole, which is short and broad or long and narrow. Vein 10 sometimes given off beyond it. Hindwings with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.[5]

Species
  • Bleptina acastusalis Walker, [1859] Puerto Rico
  • Bleptina aeatusalis Walker, 1859 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Bleptina albidiscalis Warren, 1889 Brazil (Amazonas)
  • Bleptina antinoe Druce, 1891 Panama
  • Bleptina araealis (Hampson, 1901) Florida, Antilles
  • Bleptina athusalis Schaus, 1916 Cuba
  • Bleptina atymnusalis (Walker, [1859])
  • Bleptina baracoana Schaus, 1916 Cuba
  • Bleptina bogesalis Walker, 1859 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Bleptina caradrinalis Guenée, 1854 southern US - Brazil, Antilles, Venezuela, Puerto Rico – bent-winged owlet moth
  • Bleptina carlona Schaus, 1916 Cuba
  • Bleptina clara Schaus, 1906 Brazil (Paraná)
  • Bleptina confusalis Guenée, 1854 Brazil, Venezuela
  • Bleptina confusaloides Poole, 1989 Venezuela
  • Bleptina cryptoleuca Prout, 1921 eastern Zaire
  • Bleptina dejecta Schaus, 1916 French Guiana
  • Bleptina diopis (Hampson, 1904) Bahamas
  • Bleptina eminens Schaus, 1916 French Guiana
  • Bleptina fasciata Dognin, 1914 Colombia
  • Bleptina flaviguttalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 Arizona
  • Bleptina frontalis Walker, 1862 southern Africa
  • Bleptina hydrillalis Guenée, 1854 southern US, Central America, Antilles
  • Bleptina infausta Schaus, 1913 Costa Rica
  • Bleptina inferior Grote, 1872 Florida, Alabama, Texas
  • Bleptina intractalis Walker, 1862 southern Africa
  • Bleptina lasaea Druce, 1891 Panama, Costa Rica
  • Bleptina latona Schaus, 1916 French Guiana
  • Bleptina madopalis Guenée, 1854
  • Bleptina malia Druce, 1891 Panama
  • Bleptina menalcasalis Walker, [1859] Antilles - Venezuela
  • Bleptina minimalis Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 Arizona
  • Bleptina muricolor Schaus, 1916 Cuba
  • Bleptina nisosalis Walker, [1859]
  • Bleptina niveigutta Schaus, 1916 French Guiana
  • Bleptina obscura Schaus, 1913 Costa Rica
  • Bleptina olearos Dognin, 1914 Colombia
  • Bleptina ophelasalis Walker, 1859 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Bleptina pentheusalis Walker, [1859] Venezuela
  • Bleptina pithosalis Walker, [1859]
  • Bleptina pollesalis Walker, 1859 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Bleptina pudesta Schaus, 1916 Cuba
  • Bleptina sangamonia Barnes & McDunnough, 1912 Illinois
  • Bleptina styrusalis Walker, 1859 Brazil (Rio de Janeiro)
  • Bleptina syrnialis Guenée, 1854 Brazil
  • Bleptina tenebrosa Mabille, 1900
  • Bleptina vultura Schaus, 1916 Venezuela

References
  1. Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys. 40: 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
  2. Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x.
  3. Savela, Markku (July 3, 2019). "Bleptina Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  4. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Bleptina Guenée, 1854". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
  5. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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