{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Speciesbox | image = Afotella cylindrica.jpg | display_parents = 2 | parent_authority = Barnes & Benjamin, 1926 | taxon = Afotella cylindrica | authority = Grote, 1880 | synonyms = * ''Hadena cylindrica'' }}
'''''Afotella''''' is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by William Barnes and Foster Hendrickson Benjamin in 1926. Its only species, '''''Afotella cylindrica''''', was first described by Augustus Radcliffe Grote in 1880. It is found in western North America from Saskatchewan and Alberta south to California.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/hadeninae/afotella/ |title=''Afotella'' Barnes & Benjamin, 1926 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 10, 2019}}</ref>
The wingspan is about 25 mm.
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
==External links== *{{cite web |url=https://search.museums.ualberta.ca/g/2-4791 |title=Species Details ''Afotella cylindrica'' |website=University of Alberta Museums |publisher=E.H. Strickland Entomological Museum |access-date=November 11, 2020}} *{{cite web |url=https://mothphotographersgroup.msstate.edu/species.php?hodges=9841 |title=932821.00 – 9841 – ''Afotella cylindrica'' – (Grote, 1880) |website=North American Moth Photographers Group |publisher=Mississippi State University |accessdate=June 10, 2019}} With images.
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Category:Hadeninae Category:Moths of North America Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Monotypic moth genera
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