{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{hatnote|For the city by this name in Roman Spain, see Baena.}} {{automatic taxobox | image = Baniana gobar.JPG | image_caption = ''Baniana gobar'' | taxon = Baniana | authority = Walker, 1858 }}
'''''Baniana''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.<ref>{{cite journal|last1=Lafontaine|first1=Donald|last2=Schmidt|first2=Christian |title=Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico|journal=ZooKeys|date=19 Mar 2010|issue=40|page=26|doi=10.3897/zookeys.40.414|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=2182|ref=L&S2010|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza |title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|volume=37|pages=102–124|s2cid=84249695 |doi-access=free}}</ref> The genus was previously classified in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.
==Description== Palpi usually reaching vertex of head, where the third joint minute. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewings with slightly produced and falcate apex. Hindwings with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=1894 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== * ''Baniana arvorum'' <small>(Guenée 1852)</small> * ''Baniana athamas'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana centrata'' <small>Dognin 1912</small> * ''Baniana chelesema'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana cohaerens'' <small>Draudt 1950</small> * ''Baniana craterosema'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana culminifera'' <small>Hampson 1910</small> * ''Baniana disticta'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana firmalis'' <small>(Guenée, 1854)</small> * ''Baniana fulvia'' <small>Druce 1898</small> * ''Baniana gobar'' <small>Druce, in Godman and Salvin, 1898</small> * ''Baniana gulussa'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana gyas'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana haga'' <small>Schaus, 1912</small> * ''Baniana helicon'' <small>Druce 1898</small> * ''Baniana helle'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana herceus'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana inaequalis'' <small>Walker, 1862</small> (synonym: ''Baniana crucilla'' <small>(Schaus, 1914)</small>) * ''Baniana lodebar'' <small>Dyar 1916</small> * ''Baniana mademalis'' <small>(Viette, 1978)</small> * ''Baniana mexicana'' <small>Walker 1865</small> * ''Baniana minor'' <small>Lafontaine & Walsh, 2010</small> * ''Baniana nephele'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana ochracea'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana octomaculata'' <small>(Holland 1894)</small> * ''Baniana omoptila'' <small>Viette 1956</small> * ''Baniana ostia'' <small>Druce 1898</small> * ''Baniana pastoria'' <small>Schaus 1911</small> * ''Baniana phaleniforma'' <small>Dognin 1912</small> * ''Baniana phruxus'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana pulverulenta'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana punctifera'' <small>Dognin 1912</small> * ''Baniana quadrimaculata'' <small>(Holland 1894)</small> * ''Baniana relapsa'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> * ''Baniana retrorsa'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana semilugens'' <small>(Walker 1858)</small> * ''Baniana serpens'' <small>Schaus 1914</small> * ''Baniana sexmaculata'' <small>(Holland 1894)</small> * ''Baniana significans'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> * ''Baniana sminthochroa'' <small>Hampson 1926</small> * ''Baniana strigata'' <small>Schaus 1911</small> * ''Baniana suggesta'' <small>(Walker 1858)</small> * ''Baniana tincticollis'' <small>(Walker 1858)</small> * ''Baniana triangulifera'' <small>Dognin 1912</small> * ''Baniana trigrammos'' <small>(Mabille 1881)</small> * ''Baniana veluta'' <small>Schaus, 1901</small> * ''Baniana veluticollis'' <small>Hampson 1898</small> * ''Baniana ypita'' <small>Schaus, 1901</small>
==References== * {{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/calpinae/baniana/ |title=''Baniana'' |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 13, 2019}} * {{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}} {{Reflist}} {{Commons category}}
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Category:Anobinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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