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Hypenodes

Hypenodes
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Hypenodinae
Genus: Hypenodes
Doubleday, 1850
Synonyms
  • Schrankia Herrich-Schäffer, [1851] (preocc. Hübner, [1825])
  • Tholomiges Lederer, 1857
  • Menopsimus Dyar, 1907

Hypenodes is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

The genus has previously been classified in the Strepsimaninae subfamily of the Noctuidae family.

Palpi with second joint long and fringed with long hair above. Third joint short, naked and oblique. Frontal tuft is short. Antennae ringed and minutely ciliated in male. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with a basal dorsal tuft and almost naked tibia in legs. Fore wings long and narrow. Veins 6 and 7 from near end of ell and stalked veins 8,10 where vein 9 absent. Hind wings with veins 3,4 and 6,7 stalked. Vein 5 arise from middle of discocellulars.



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