HYPENINAE of Australia
NOCTUIDAE ,  NOCTUOIDEA

HYPENINAE

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HYPENINAE

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Sometimes, this group of species is treated as a subfamily of EREBIDAE, but here, following Nielsen et al., we list it as a subfamily of NOCTUIDAE.

Some common Australian species of the 115 in HYPENINAE are:

Aethalina asaphes

  • Arrade cristatum
    Arrade destituta
    Arrade leucocosmalis

    Artigisa melanephele

    Britha biguttata

    Calathusa basicunea
    Calathusa eremna
    Calathusa hypotherma

    Catada apoblepta

  • Catadoides punctata

    Chusaris opisthospila

    Dichromia quinqualis

    Elaphristis leucochorda
    Elaphristis psoloessa

    Esthlodora cyanospila
    Esthlodora variabilis
    Esthlodora versicolor

  • Foveades aroensis

  • Goniocraspedon mistura

  • Goniophylla fragilis

  • Harita nodyna

    Hypena conscitalis
    Hypena gonospilalis
    Hypena gypsospila
    Hypena labatalis
    Hypena laceratalis Lantana Defoliator
    Hypena masurialis
    Hypena subvittalis

    Hypenagonia mesoscia

  • Hypenarana acrocausta

  • Hypertrocta brunnea

  • Lophotoma diagrapha

    Lysimelia lenis

  • Mecistoptera lithochroa

  • Metaphoenia rhodias

    Meyrickella torquesauria

    Naarda xanthonephra

  • Olulis subrosea

  • Panilla aroa

  • Paonidia anthracias

  • Parilyrgis concolor

  • Pherechoa crypsichlora

  • Philogethes metableta

    Prionopterina grammatistis
    Prionopterina tritosticha

    Prolophota pallida

  • Rhodina falculalis

    Rhynchina inornata

    Rhynchodontodes chalcias

    Sandava scitisignata
    Sandava xylistis

  • Sarobela litterata

    Stenopaltis lithina

  • Synolulis rhodinastis

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    (updated 15 April 2013)