''Oxycnemis'' 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. The genus was erected by
Augustus Radcliffe Grote
Augustus Radcliffe Grote (February 7, 1841 – September 12, 1903) was a British entomologist who described over 1,000 species of butterflies and moths.Osborn, H. 1937. Fragments of Entomological History. Columbus, OH: Published by the author ...
in 1882.
Species
* ''
Oxycnemis acuna''
Barnes, 1907
* ''
Oxycnemis advena''
Grote, 1882
* ''
Oxycnemis franclemonti''
Blanchard, 1968
* ''
Oxycnemis fusimacula''
J.B. Smith, 1902
* ''
Oxycnemis gracillinea''
(Grote, 1881)
* ''
Oxycnemis grandimacula''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1910 (=''Oxycnemis erratica''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
* ''
Oxycnemis gustis''
Smith, 1907
* ''
Oxycnemis orbicularis
''Oxycnemis'' is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1882.
Species
* ''Oxycnemis acuna'' Barnes, 1907
* ''Oxycnemis advena'' Grote, 1882
* ''Oxycnemis franclemonti'' Blanchard, 1968
* '' ...
''
Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
Former species
* ''Oxycnemis subsimplex''
Dyar, 1904 is now ''
Sympistis subsimplex''
(Dyar, 1904)
References
*Troubridge, J. T. (2008)
"A generic realignment of the Oncocnemidini ''sensu'' Hodges (1983) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Oncocnemidinae), with description of a new genus and 50 new species" ''Zootaxa''. 1903: 1–95.
Cuculliinae
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