Noctua

Life-forms

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Noctuidae
Subfamilia: Noctuinae
Tribus: Noctuini
Subtribus: Noctuina
Genus: Noctua
Species: N. albula – N. cataphanes – N. comes – N. craccae – N. dilucida – N. fimbriata – N. genistae – N. interjecta – N. interposita – N. janthe – N. janthina – N. noacki – N. orbona – N. peponis – N. procax – N. pronuba – N. saucia – N. socrus – N. spectrum – N. tertia – N. variegata – N. viciae – N. warreni
Name

Noctua Linnaeus, 1758
Original status: valid subgenus(?) of Phalaena

[source: Linnaeus (1758: 508)]
References

Boursin, C., 1957: Vorläufige Diagnosen einiger neuer Phalaenidae von den Kanaren nebst Beschreibung eines neuen Subgenus. (Beiträge zur Kenntnis der "Agrotidae-Trifinae", XCVII/97). Zeitschrift der Wiener Entomologischen Gesellschaft 42: 140–143. Full article: [1].
Lafontaine, J.D. & Schmidt, B.C. 2010. Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico. Zookeys 40: 1–239. DOI: 10.3897/zookeys.40.414 Reference page.
Linnaeus, C. 1758: Systema naturae per regna tria naturae, secundum classes, ordines, genera, species, cum characteribus, differentiis, synonymis, locis. Editio Decima, Reformata. Tomus I. Laurentii Salvii, Stockholm. BHL
Lödl, M. 1985: Noctua warreni sp. n., a new sibling species of Noctua comes Hübner, 1813 from Cyprus (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae). Nota lepidopterologica (n.f.) 10(3): 163–174. BHL Reference page.
Speidel, W.; Naumann, C.M. 2004: A survey of family-group names in noctuoid moths (Insecta: Lepidoptera). Systematics and biodiversity, 2: 191–221. DOI: 10.1017/S1477200004001409

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Nomenclator Zoologicus

Noctua (Latin for "little owl") is a genus of moths. They have dull, cryptic forewings and often very bright hindwings. These are hidden under the forewings when the moths rest, leading to their common name of yellow underwings. They are not particularly closely related to the "true" underwing moths (Catocala) though, apart from both being Noctuoidea (and in the traditional classification, Noctuidae). They are good fliers.

Species

Noctua atlantica Warren, 1905
Noctua carvalhoi Pinker, 1983
Noctua comes – lesser yellow underwing Hübner, [1813]
Noctua fimbriata – broad-bordered yellow underwing Schreber, 1759
Noctua interjecta – least yellow underwing Hübner, [1803]
Noctua interposita Hübner, [1790]
Noctua janthe – lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing Borkhausen, 1792
Noctua janthina – lesser broad-bordered yellow underwing [Schiffermüller], 1775
Noctua noacki Boursin, 1957
Noctua orbona – lunar yellow underwing Hufnagel, 1766
Noctua pronuba – large yellow underwing (Linnaeus, 1758)
Noctua teixeirai Pinker, 1971
Noctua tertia Mentzer, Moberg & Fibiger, 1991
Noctua tirrenica Biebinger, Speidel & Hanigk, 1983
Noctua undosa Leech, 1889
Noctua warreni Lödl, 1987

References

Noctua at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms