''Masalia'' was 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. It is now considered to be a subgenus of ''
Heliothis
''Heliothis'' is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. Some of the species have larvae which are agricultural pests on crop species such as tobacco, cotton, soybean and pigeon pea. S ...
''.
Selected species
*''
Heliothis albida''
(Hampson, 1905)
*''
Heliothis philbyi''
(Brandt, 1941)
*''
Heliothis perstriata''
(Brandt, 1941)
See: ''
Heliothis
''Heliothis'' is a genus of moths in the family Noctuidae. It was first described by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. Some of the species have larvae which are agricultural pests on crop species such as tobacco, cotton, soybean and pigeon pea. S ...
''
References
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
Heliothis
Insect subgenera
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