Plusia

Plusia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Plusia Ochsenheimer, 1816

Plusia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Species

• Plusia contexta Grote, 1873
• Plusia festucae - Gold Spot Linnaeus, 1758
• Plusia magnimacula D. Handfield & L. Handfield, 2006
• Plusia manchurica Lempke, 1966
• Plusia nichollae Hampson, 1913
• Plusia putnami Grote, 1873
• Plusia rosanovi Nabokov, 1912^[1]
• Plusia venusta Walker, 1865

References

• Handfield, D.; Handfield, L. (2006). "A new species of Plusia (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae) from North America". The Canadian Entomologist 138 (6): 853–859. doi:10.4039/N06-041.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Plusia at funet.fi

1. Writer Vladimir Nabokov paraphrased his father's description of the owlet moth Plusia rosanovi (as it appeared in Volume III of the four-volume Butterflies and Moths of the Russian Empire, 1912) in his posthumous essay "Father's Butterflies", printed in The Atlantic, April 2000: "How lovely it is, by the way, how one's eye is caressed by, the dark-cherry forewing, traversed by a mauve-pink stripe and adorned at its center by the golden emblem of its genus, in this instance a tapering, bowed half-moon -- and if it is hard to render the flowery velvet of the background, what is one to say of the 'emblem,' which, on the actual moth, resembles a dab of gilt redolent of turpentine, and must therefore be copied (and recopied!) in such a way that the painter's work transmits, besides all the rest, a resemblance to the work of a painter!"