''Australothis'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial nom ...
of
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
s of the family
Noctuidae.
Species
* ''
Australothis exopisso''
Matthews, 1999
* ''
Australothis hackeri''
Kobes, 1995
* ''
Australothis rubrescens'' -
Indian Weed Caterpillar (Walker, 1858)
* ''
Australothis tertia''
(Roepke, 1941)
* ''
Australothis volatilis''
Matthews & Patrick, 1998
References
* Matthews, M. & Patrick, B. (1998). "A new diurnal species of Heliothinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) endemic to New Zealand." ''Journal of Natural History'' 32: 263-271.
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Heliothinae
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