Stenoloba

Stenoloba
Stenoloba viridicollar male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Stenoloba
Staudinger, 1892

Stenoloba is an East Asian genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Taxonomy

It was included in the subfamily Acontiinae by early authors until Sugi revised the Japanese species of the genus and established its position in the Bryophilinae in 1970.[1]

Diversity

The genus presently includes about 75 species that are arranged in 14 species groups.

Selected Species

References

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