Homocerynea

{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Speciesbox | taxon = Homocerynea cleoriformis | parent_authority = Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 | authority = Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 }} '''''Homocerynea''''' is a monotypic moth genus of the family Erebidae. Its only species, '''''Homocerynea cleoriformis''''', was found in the US state of Arizona. Both the genus and species were erected by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1913.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/acontiinae/homocerynea/ |title=''Homocerynea'' Barnes & McDunnough, 1913 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 15, 2019}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Phytometrinae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Acontiinae of the family Noctuidae.<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|doi-access=free }}</ref><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 March 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|bibcode=2010ZooK...40....1L }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}} * {{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://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 |date=2023 |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/s93616qw }}

Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Monotypic moth genera