Amyna

Amyna is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.^[1][2][3]

Amyna
The imago of A. virbioides (above) and Amyna sp. caterpillar feeding on Croton
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Bagisarinae
Genus:	Amyna Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
Berresa Walker, [1859] Ilattia Walker, [1859] Lochia Walker, 1865 Stridova Walker, 1869 Pteraetholix Grote, 1873 Chytoryza Grote, 1876 Hesperimorpha Saalmüller, 1880 Amynodes Warren, 1913 Formosamyna Strand, 1920 Niphosticta Turner, 1936 Trilophia Turner, 1943 Hurworthia Nye, 1975

Description

Their thoraxes are tuftless. The abdomen is slender and tapering to a point with the slight dorsal tufts. Palpi more slender and reaching above vertex of head. Forewings are shorter and broader, where the costa more arched towards apex.^[4]

Species

• Amyna acuta Berio, 1960
• Amyna albiloba (Warren, 1913)
• Amyna amplificans (Walker, 1858)
• Amyna apicalis (Walker, 1865)
• Amyna apicipuncta (Turner, 1936)
• Amyna aroa (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
• Amyna aurea Lucas, 1898
• Amyna auriculata (Turner, 1903)
• Amyna axis (Guenée, 1852)
• Amyna bullula (Grote, 1873)
• Amyna crocosticta Hampson, 1910
• Amyna distigmata (Hampson, 1896)
• Amyna flavirena Holloway, 1979
• Amyna frontalis Strand, 1920
• Amyna glaucoptera Hampson, 1910
• Amyna griseola (Snellen, 1872)
• Amyna indignata (Wileman & South, 1921)
• Amyna insularum Schaus, 1923
• Amyna leucoptera Hampson, 1910
• Amyna leucostriga Hampson, 1910
• Amyna magnifoveata Hampson, 1918
• Amyna modesta (Warren, 1913)
• Amyna monocampta Hampson, 1910
• Amyna natalica Pinhey, 1975
• Amyna natalis (Walker, [1859])
• Amyna onthodes (Lower, 1903)
• Amyna padanga (Swinhoe, 1919)
• Amyna punctum (Fabricius, 1794)
• Amyna renalis (Moore, 1882)
• Amyna rubrirena Hampson, 1918
• Amyna ruptirena Hampson, 1910
• Amyna spilonota Lower, 1903
• Amyna spissa (Warren, 1913)
• Amyna stellata Butler, 1878
• Amyna virbioides (Pagenstecher, 1907)