''Drymonia'' 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
Notodontidae
Notodontidae is a family of moths with approximately 3,800 known species. The family was described by James Francis Stephens in 1829. Moths of this family are found in all parts of the world, but they are most concentrated in tropical areas, espe ...
erected by
Jacob Hübner in 1819. It consists of the following species:
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Drymonia dodonaea
''Drymonia dodonaea'', the marbled brown, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. The species was first described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. It is found in Europe and in the area surrounding the Caucasus.
The wingspan i ...
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(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Drymonia dodonides
''Drymonia dodonides'' is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Japan.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 ...
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(Staudinger, 1887)
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Drymonia obliterata
''Drymonia obliterata'', the indistinct marbled brown, is a moth of the family Notodontidae. It is found in Central and Southern Europe, Asia Minor and Armenia.
The wingspan is 30–40 mm. The moth flies from May to July and in warmer regi ...
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(Esper, 1785)
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Drymonia querna''
(Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
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Drymonia ruficornis''
(Hufnagel, 1766)
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Drymonia velitaris
''Drymonia velitaris'' is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Johann Siegfried Hufnagel in 1766. It is found in central and southern Europe and Anatolia.
The length of the forewings is 12–15 mm for males and 15–18&nbs ...
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(Hufnagel, 1766)
References
Notodontidae
Taxa named by Jacob Hübner
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