Cryphia

Cryphia
Cryphia domestica
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Bryophilinae
Genus:	Cryphia Hübner, 1818
Synonyms
Bryoleuca Hampson, 1908 Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 Bryopsis Boursin, 1970 Euthales Hübner, 1820 Hymenocryphia Boursin, 1967 Jaspidia Hübner, 1822 Nyctobrya Boursin, 1957 Scythobrya Boursin, 1960 Heterocryphia Beck, 1996

Cryphia is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was erected by Jacob Hübner in 1818.

Description

Palpi slender and upturned, where the third joint reaching above vertex of head. Antennae minutely ciliated (hairy). Thorax with slight tufts behind collar. Abdomen with slight dorsal tufts, and longer than the hindwing. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs.[1]

Species

• Cryphia albipuncta (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
• Cryphia algae (Fabricius, 1775) – tree-lichen beauty
• Cryphia amasina (Draudt, 1931)
• Cryphia amseli Boursin, 1952
• Cryphia amygdalina Boursin, 1963
• Cryphia cuerva (Barnes, 1907)
• Cryphia domestica (Hufnagel, 1766) – marbled beauty
• Cryphia ereptricula (Treitschke, 1825)
• Cryphia fascia (Smith, [1904])
• Cryphia flavidior (Barnes & McDunnough, 1911)
• Cryphia flavipuncta Mustelin, 2006
• Cryphia fraudatricula (Hübner, [1803])
• Cryphia gea Boursin, 1954
• Cryphia labecula (Lederer, 1855)
• Cryphia merhaba Hacker & Fibiger, 2006
• Cryphia moeonis (Lederer, 1865)
• Cryphia muralis (Forster, 1771) – marbled green
• Cryphia nana (Barnes & McDunnough, 1911)
• Cryphia oaklandiae (Barnes & McDunnough, 1911)
• Cryphia ochsi (Boursin, 1940)
• Cryphia olivacea (Smith, 1891)
• Cryphia orthogramma Boursin, 1954
• Cryphia pallidioides Poole, 1989
• Cryphia paulina (Staudinger, 1892)
• Cryphia petrea (Guenée, 1852)
• Cryphia petricolor (Lederer, 1869)
• Cryphia postochrea (Hampson, 1893)
• Cryphia raptricula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) – marbled gray
• Cryphia ravula (Hübner, [1813])
• Cryphia receptricula (Hübner, [1803])
• Cryphia rectilinea (Warren, 1909)
• Cryphia sarepta (Barnes, 1907)
• Cryphia seladonia (Christoph, 1885)
• Cryphia simulatricula (Guenée, 1852)
• Cryphia strobinoi Dujardin, 1972
• Cryphia tephrocharis Boursin, 1954
• Cryphia vandalusiae (Duponchel, 1842)

Former species

• Cryphia viridata is now Bryolymnia viridata (Harvey, 1876)

References

1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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• Hacker, H. & Fibiger, M. (2006). "Updated list of Micronoctuidae, Noctuidae (s.l.), and Hyblaeidae species of Yemen, collected during three expeditions in 1996, 1998 and 2000, with comments and descriptions of species." Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 12: 75-166.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
• Pekarsky, O., & Ronkay, L. (2010). "Subfamily Bryophilinae Guenée. The Bryophila raptricula species-complex. in: Fibiger, M., Ronkay, L., Yela, J.L. & Zilli, A. (2010): Rivulinae – Phytometrinae, and Micronoctuidae, including Supplement to Noctuidae Europaeae, vols 1-11. Noctuidae Europaeae, volume 12." – Entomological Press, Sorø, 504 pp. + 13 colour plates.
• Pekarsky, O., Volynkin, A., & Matov, A. (2014). "A new species of Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 from Mongolia (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Bryophilinae)." Zootaxa 3856 (1): 143–148.
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