''Leucania'' is a
genus
Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...
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
The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the other f ...
first described by
Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The proboscis is well developed. Its eyes are hairy. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Head not deeply retracted into the thorax, which is smoothly scaled. Abdomen with scarcely a trace of dorsal tufts on basal segments. Tibia and tarsi with short hairs. Forewings with vein 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) to form the areole. Vein 7 being given off from the end of it. Vein 10 before the end.
Species
* ''
Leucania abdominalis
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The ...
''
(Walker, 1856)
* ''
Leucania acrapex
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae Species description, first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depresse ...
''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''
Leucania adjuta''
(Grote, 1874)
* ''
Leucania aedesiusi
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The ...
''
(Rougeot & Laporte, 1983)
* ''
Leucania agnata
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The ...
''
(Draudt, 1950)
* ''
Leucania albifasciata''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''
Leucania albimacula''
(Gaede, 1916)
* ''
Leucania albistigma
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The ...
''
Moore, 1881
* ''
Leucania albistriga
''Leucania'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled, and prominent, short, naked and depressed third joint. The ...
''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania alboradiata''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania alopa''
Meyrick, 1887
* ''Leucania amens''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania anteroclara''
Smith, 1902
* ''Leucania apparata''
Wallengren, 1875
* ''Leucania arcupunctata''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania argyrina''
(Laporte, 1984)
* ''Leucania atrifera''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania atrimacula''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania atrinota''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania atrisignata''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania atritorna''
(Hampson, 1911)
* ''Leucania badia''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania basilinea''
Swinhoe, 1890
* ''Leucania baziyae''
Möschler, 1883
* ''Leucania biforis''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania bilinea''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania bilineata''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania bisetulata''
(Berio, 1940)
* ''Leucania brantsii''
Snellen, 1872
* ''Leucania calidior''
(Forbes, 1936)
* ''Leucania canariensis''
Rebel, 1894
* ''Leucania carminata''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania carnea''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania carneotincta''
(Kenrick, 1917)
* ''Leucania celebensis''
(Tams, 1935)
* ''Leucania chejela''
(William Schaus, Schaus, 1921)
* ''Leucania chilensis''
Butler, 1882
* ''Leucania cholica''
(Dyar, 1919)
* ''Leucania cinereicollis''
Walker, 1858
* ''Leucania clara''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania clarescens''
Möschler, 1890
* ''Leucania clavifera''
(Hampson, 1907)
* ''Leucania comma''
(Linnaeus, 1761) – shoulder-striped wainscot
* ''Leucania commoides''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania confluens''
(Bethune-Baker, 1909)
* ''Leucania confundens''
Walker, 1858
* ''Leucania continentalis''
Berio, 1962
* ''Leucania cooperi''
(Schaus, 1923)
* ''Leucania corrugata''
Hampson, 1894
* ''Leucania cruegeri''
Butler, 1886
* ''Leucania cupreata''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania curvilinea''
Hampson, 1891
* ''Leucania cyprium''
(Laporte, 1984)
* ''Leucania dasycnema''
(Turner, 1912)
* ''Leucania dia''
(Grote, 1879)
* ''Leucania diagramma''
Bethune-Baker, 1905
* ''Leucania diatrecta''
Butler, 1886
* ''Leucania diopis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania dorsalis''
Walker, 1856
* ''Leucania ebriosa''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania erecta''
Hreblay, 1999
* ''Leucania exclamans''
Berio, 1973
* ''Leucania extincta''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania eyre''
(Schaus, 1938)
* ''Leucania ezrami''
(Schaus, 1938)
* ''Leucania fagani''
(Schaus, 1938)
* ''Leucania falklandica''
Butler, 1893
* ''Leucania farcta''
(Grote, 1881)
* ''Leucania fasilidasi''
(Laporte, 1984)
* ''Leucania februalis''
(Hill, 1924)
* ''Leucania ficta''
Walker, 1866
* ''Leucania fissifascia''
(Hampson, 1907)
* ''Leucania fiyu''
Hreblay & Yoshimatsu, 1998
* ''Leucania fortunata''
(Pinker, 1961)
* ''Leucania fragilis''
(Butler, 1883)
* ''Leucania guascana''
(Schaus, 1938)
* ''Leucania hamata''
Wallengren, 1856
* ''Leucania hartii''
Howes, 1914
* ''Leucania haywardi''
(Köhler, 1947)
* ''Leucania herrichii''
Herrich-Schäffer, [1849]
* ''Leucania hildrani''
(Schaus, 1938)
* ''Leucania homoeoptera''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania humidicola''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania hypocapna''
(de Joannis, 1932)
* ''Leucania imperfecta''
Smith, 1894
* ''Leucania impuncta''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania inangulata''
(Gaede, 1934)
* ''Leucania incognita''
(Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
* ''Leucania incompleta''
(Berio, 1970)
* ''Leucania inconspicua''
Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
* ''Leucania ineana''
Snellen, 1880
* ''Leucania ineata''
Snellen, 1880
* ''Leucania inermis''
(Forbes, 1936)
* ''Leucania infatuans''
Franclemont, 1972
* ''Leucania innotata''
Howes, 1908
* ''Leucania inouei''
Sugi, 1965
* ''Leucania insecuta''
Walker, 1865
* ''Leucania insueta''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania insulicola''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania interciliata''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania internata''
Möschler, 1883
* ''Leucania irregularis''
(Walker, 1857)
* ''Leucania jaliscana''
Schaus, 1898
* ''Leucania joannisi''
Boursin & Rungs, 1952
* ''Leucania kathmandica''
Hreblay, Legrain & Yoshimatsu, 1996
* ''Leucania kirschi''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania lacteola''
Christoph, 1893
* ''Leucania lacticinia''
(Dognin, 1914)
* ''Leucania lapidaria''
(Grote, 1876)
* ''Leucania latericia''
Holloway, 1979
* ''Leucania latiuscula''
Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
* ''Leucania leucogramma''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania leucophlebia''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania leucospila''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania leucosta''
Lower, 1901
* ''Leucania leucostigma''
Snellen, 1877
* ''Leucania lewinii''
Butler, 1886
* ''Leucania lilloana''
(Köhler, 1947)
* ''Leucania lilloana''
(Köhler, 1947)
* ''Leucania linda''
Franclemont, 1952
* ''Leucania linearis''
Lucas, 1892
* ''Leucania lineolatoides''
Poole, 1989
* ''Leucania linita''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania lobrega''
Adams, 2001
* ''Leucania longipennis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania loreyi''
(Duponchel, 1827)
* ''Leucania loreyimima''
Rungs, 1953 – sugar cane armyworm
* ''Leucania lucentia''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania macellaria''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania macoya''
(Schaus, 1921)
* ''Leucania mediolacteata''
(Berio, 1941)
* ''Leucania megaproctis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania melanostrota''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania melianoides''
Möschler, 1884
* ''Leucania metasarca''
(Hampson, 1907)
* ''Leucania miasticta''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania microgonia''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania micropis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania microsticha''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania misteca''
Schaus, 1898
* ''Leucania mocoides''
Dognin, 1897
* ''Leucania multilinea''
Walker, 1856
* ''Leucania multipunctata''
Druce, 1889
* ''Leucania murcida''
(Wallengren, 1875)
* ''Leucania musakensis''
Laporte, 1977
* ''Leucania nabalua''
Holloway, 1976
* ''Leucania nebulosa''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania negrottoi''
(Berio, 1940)
* ''Leucania nigrispara''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania nigristriga''
Hreblay, Legrain & Yoshimatsu, 1998
* ''Leucania noacki''
(Boursin, 1967)
* ''Leucania oaxacana''
Schaus, 1898
* ''Leucania obsoleta''
(Hübner, [1803])
* ''Leucania obumbrata''
T.P. Lucas, 1894
* ''Leucania opalisans''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania oregona''
Smith, 1902
* ''Leucania palaestinae''
(Staudinger, 1897)
* ''Leucania paraxysta''
Meyrick, 1929
* ''Leucania patrizii''
(Berio, 1935)
* ''Leucania pectinata''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania percussa''
Butler, 1880
* ''Leucania persecta''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania perstriata''
(Hampson, 1909)
* ''Leucania perstrigata''
(Dyar, 1910)
* ''Leucania petra''
Hreblay & Yoshimatsu, 1999
* ''Leucania phaea''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania phaeochroa''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania phaeoneura''
Hampson, 1913
* ''Leucania phragmitidicola''
Guenée, 1852 – phragmites wainscot
** (''Leucania phragmatidicola''
Guenée, 1852, misspelling)
* ''Leucania pilipalpis''
(Grote, 1876)
* ''Leucania polemusa''
Swinhoe, 1885
* ''Leucania polyrabda''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania polysticha''
Turner, 1902
* ''Leucania polystrota''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania porphyrodes''
(Turner, 1911)
* ''Leucania praetexta''
Townsend, 1956
* ''Leucania pseudargyria''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania pseudoyu''
(Rothschild, 1915)
* ''Leucania ptyonophora''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania punctosa''
(Treitschke, 1825)
* ''Leucania punctulata''
Wallengren, 1856
* ''Leucania putrescens''
(Hübner, [1824])
* ''Leucania pyrastis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania quadricuspidata''
Wallengren, 1856
* ''Leucania respersa''
Berio, 1974
* ''Leucania reticulata''
Berio, 1962
* ''Leucania rhabdophora''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania rhodopsara''
(Turner, 1911)
* ''Leucania rhodoptera''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania rivorum''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania rosea''
Möschler, 1880
* ''Leucania roseilinea''
Walker, 1862
* ''Leucania roseilineoides''
Poole, 1989
* ''Leucania roseivena''
(Draudt, 1924)
* ''Leucania rosengreeni''
Rebel, 1907
* ''Leucania roseorufa''
(de Joannis, 1928)
* ''Leucania rosescens''
(Hampson, 1910)
* ''Leucania rubra''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania rubrescens''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania rufescenoides''
Poole, 1989
* ''Leucania rufidefinita''
(Hampson, 1918)
* ''Leucania sanguinis''
Berio, 1962
* ''Leucania sarca''
Hampson, 1902
* ''Leucania sarcistis''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania sarcophaea''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania sarcostriga''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania scirpicola''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania secta''
Herrich-Schäffer, 1868
* ''Leucania semiusta''
Hampson, 1891
* ''Leucania senescens''
Möschler, 1890
* ''Leucania separata''
(Walker, 1865) see ''Mythimna separata''
* ''Leucania sericea''
(Warren, 1915)
* ''Leucania seteci''
(Dyar, 1914)
* ''Leucania simillima''
Walker, 1862
* ''Leucania socorrensis''
(Dognin, 1911)
* ''Leucania steniptera''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania stenographa''
Lower, 1900
* ''Leucania stolata''
Smith, 1894
* ''Leucania striata''
Leech, 1900
* ''Leucania strigata''
Maassen, 1890
* ''Leucania striguscula''
(Dyar, 1913)
* ''Leucania subacrapex''
(Berio, 1970)
* ''Leucania subdecora''
(Wileman, 1912)
* ''Leucania subpunctata''
(Harvey, 1875)
* ''Leucania subrubrescens''
(Warren, 1915)
* ''Leucania subspurcata''
Walker, 1866
* ''Leucania suffusoides''
Poole, 1989
* ''Leucania tacuna''
Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
* ''Leucania tenebra''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania tritonia''
(Hampson, 1905)
* ''Leucania uda''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania uniformis''
Moore, 1881
* ''Leucania ursula''
(Forbes, 1936)
* ''Leucania ustata''
(Hampson, 1907)
* ''Leucania vana''
(Swinhoe, 1885)
* ''Leucania velva''
(Schaus, 1921)
* ''Leucania venalba''
Moore, 1867
* ''Leucania vibicosa''
(Turner, 1920)
* ''Leucania vyndhiae''
Hreblay & Legrain, 1999
* ''Leucania yu''
Guenée, 1852
* ''Leucania yunnana''
Chen, 1999
* ''Leucania zeae''
(Duponchel, 1827)
References
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Leucania,
Mythimnini