Chalcopasta Explained

Chalcopasta is a genus of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are about nine described species in Chalcopasta.

Species

These nine species belong to the genus Chalcopasta:

• Chalcopasta acantha Druce, 1889
• Chalcopasta acema (Druce, 1889)
• Chalcopasta ellica Dyar, 1915
• Chalcopasta fulgens Barnes & McDunnough, 1912
• Chalcopasta howardi (H. Edwards, 1877)
• Chalcopasta pterochalcea Dyar, 1909
• Chalcopasta riandana Dyar, 1912
• Chalcopasta sinuata Hampson, 1918
• Chalcopasta territans (H. Edwards, 1884)

Former species

• Chalcopasta koebelei is now Argentostiria koebelei (Riley, 1893)

References

• Chalcopasta at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database