Bryophila Explained

Bryophila is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was described by Treitschke in 1825.^[1]

Taxonomy

Robert W. Poole (1989) considered Bryophila to be a synonym of Cryphia Hübner, 1818.^[2]

Species

Subgenus Scythobrya

• Bryophila maeonis Lederer, 1865 Cyprus, Asia Minor, Turkey, Syria, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Iraq, Iran, Armenia, southern European Russia, Turkmenistan, north-western Kazakhstan, Kirghizstan, Afghanistan
• Bryophila paulina Staudinger, [1892] Syria, Palestine, Egypt, Arabia
• Bryophila eucharista (Boursin, 1960) Iran
• Bryophila occidentalis Osthelder, 1933 Turkey
• Bryophila icterica (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
• Bryophila hedygrapha (Boursin, 1963) Afghanistan
• Bryophila ancharista (Boursin, 1970) Pakistan
• Bryophila uzahovi (Ronkay & Herczig, 1991) Caucasus
• Bryophila salomonis (Boursin, 1954) Iran (Elburs)
• Bryophila plumbeola Staudinger, 1881 Syria, western Turkestan
• Bryophila molybdea (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
• Bryophila omotoi (Boursin, 1967) Afghanistan
• Bryophila hampsoni Draudt, 1931 northern Alai
• Bryophila duskei Christoph, 1893 Transcaucasus
• Bryophila literata Moore, 1881 Kashmir, Punjab
• Bryophila subliterata Filipjev, 1931 Pamirs
• Bryophila klapperichi (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
• Bryophila miltophaea Hampson, 1908 western Turkestan
• Bryophila ochrophaea Hampson, 1908 Kasmir
• Bryophila idonea Christoph, 1893 Turkey, northern Iran
• Bryophila puengeleri Draudt, 1931 China (Xinjiang)
• Bryophila vilis Hampson, 1908 western Turkestan
• Bryophila mongolica Boursin, 1961) Mongolia (eastern Tannuola)
• Bryophila kaszabi Pekarsky, Volynkin & Matov, 2014 western Mongolia

Subgenus Bryoleuca

• Bryophila seladona Christoph, 1885 eastern Turkey, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Georgia, southern European Russia, Ukraine, North Macedonia, northern Greece, Bulgaria, Turkey
• Bryophila raddei (Boursin, 1953) Transcaucasia, north-eastern Turkey, Armenia, north-western Iran
• Bryophila malachitica Ronkay, Fibiger & Steiner, 2009 Caucasus
• Bryophila vandalusiae Duponchel, 1842 south-western Europe, southern France, Corsica, Morocco, Libya, Egypt
• Bryophila thinicola (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1998) Nepal
• Bryophila ravuloides (Boursin, 1954) Kashmir
• Bryophila rectilinea (Warren, 1909) Italy, south-eastern Europe, Asia Minor, Syria, Lebanon, Israel, Iraq
• Bryophila amseli (Boursin, 1952) Israel
• Bryophila microphysa (Boursin, 1952) Cyprus
• Bryophila tephrocharis (Boursin, 1954) south-eastern Europe, Turkey, Iran, Lebanon, Israel, Jordan, Cyprus
• Bryophila ravula (Hübner, [1813]) France, Switzerland, southern Germany, northern Africa, south-western Europe
• Bryophila rueckbeili (Boursin, 1953) Turkestan
• Bryophila ereptricula Treitschke, 1825 Europe
• Bryophila galathea Millière, 1875 southern France
• Bryophila amoenissima Turati, 1909 Italy
• Bryophila petricolor Lederer, 1870 northern Greece, Transcaucasus, Armenia, northern Iran
• Bryophila pittawayi (Wiltshire, 1986) Arabia
• Bryophila harithya (Wiltshire, 1990)
• Bryophila remanei (Heydemann & Schulte, 1963) Iraq
• Bryophila labecula Lederer, 1855 Syria
• Bryophila thamanaea Hampson, 1908 Iran
• Bryophila raptricula (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775) northern Africa, EU, Near East, Central Asia, Korea
• Bryophila felina (Eversmann, 1852) Armenia, Turkestan
• Bryophila pljushtchi (Pekarsky, 2015) Afghanistan
• Bryophila volodia (An, Choi & Ronkay, 2013) Vietnam
• Bryophila nahnybidai (Pekarsky, 2014)
• Bryophila protracta Christoph, 1893 Turkey
• Bryophila diehli (Boursin, 1960) Saudi Arabia
• Bryophila omega (Gyulai & Ronkay, 2001) Qinghai
• Bryophila zeta (Plante, 1989)
• Bryophila orthogramma (Boursin, 1954) Turkestan, Ukraine, Moldova, Bulgaria, Serbia, Kosovo, south-eastern Siberia, Korea, Japan
• Bryophila gea (Boursin, 1954) Algeria, Morocco, Spain
• Bryophila hannemanni (Boursin, 1961) Margelan
• Bryophila eucta Hampson, 1908 northern Iran, western Turkestan
• Bryophila argentacea Bytinski-Salz & Brandt, 1937 Iran
• Bryophila ovchi (Pekarsky, 2019) Tajikistan

Subgenus Moureia

• Bryophila microglossa (Rambur, 1858) Algeria, Spain, Syria
• Bryophila petrea Guenée, 1852 south-western Europe, southern France, Corsica, Greece, Kurdistan, Asia Minor, Syria, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, Iraq, Cyprus

Subgenus Bryophila

• Bryophila domestica (Hufnagel, 1766) southern Europe, France, southern Sweden, Germany, Poland, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria
• Bryophila diachorisma (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
• Bryophila gigantea (Boursin, 1960) Afghanistan
• Bryophila orocharis Boursin, 1944 western Himalayas
• Bryophila eberti (Boursin, 1961) Afghanistan
• Bryophila albimixta Sugi, 1980 Korea, Japan
• Bryophila granitalis (Butler, 1881) Korea, Japan
• Bryophila herczigi (Hreblay & Ronkay, 2000) Taiwan
• Bryophila barbaria (Schawerda, 1934) Morocco
• Bryophila schwingenschussi (Boursin, 1954) Algeria
• Bryophila blepharista (Boursin, 1954) Morocco
• Bryophila aerumna Culot, 1912 Algeria
• Bryophila duseutrei Oberthür, 1922 Morocco

Subgenus Hymenocryphia

• Bryophila modesta Moore, 1881 Punjab
• Bryophila pulverosa (Warren, 1909) Kashmir
• Bryophila pelidna (Boursin, 1967) Afghanistan
• Bryophila cyanea (Boursin, 1969) India (Unies)
• Bryophila subcyanea (Hreblay & Ronkay, 1999) Nepal
• Bryophila beigli (Hacker, 1990)
• Bryophila canosparsa Draudt, 1950 Yunnan
• Bryophila wiltshirei (Boursin, 1954) Kashmir
• Bryophila strobinoi (Dujardin, 1972) Greece
• Bryophila altivolans (Hacker, 1990)
• Bryophila pulverulenta Boursin, 1944 western Himalayas
• Bryophila kautti (Hacker, 1996)
• Bryophila testouti Boursin, 1944 western Yunnan

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . June 22, 2020 . Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . November 6, 2020.
2. Web site: Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . November 5, 2004 . Bryophila Treitschke, 1825 . Butterflies and Moths of the World . . November 6, 2020.