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Noctuidae

The family includes well over 21000 described species, is worldwide in distribution, and particularly well developed in the tropics. The classification of the family is still uncertain. Hermiinae may be excluded from the Noctuidae in the future (Scoble 1992: 336).
Identification: Bretherton, Goater & Lorimer 1979, 1983, Buszko 1980, 1983, 1985, Fibiger 1990, 1993, 1997, Forster & Wohlfahrt 1971, Goater, Ronkay & Fibiger 2003, Hacker et al. 2002, Koch 1972, Kostrowicki 1956, 1959, Nowacki 1998, Ronkay & Ronkay 1994, 1995, Ronkay et al. 2001, Skinner 1984, Skou 1991.
Nomenclature according to Fauna Europaea.
Species in Belgium: 380.


A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

WV = West-Vlaanderen LI = Limburg NA = Namur
OV = Oost-Vlaanderen BR = Brabant LG = Liège
AN = Antwerpen HA = Hainaut LX = Luxembourg
= before 1980 = 1980 – 2004 = after 2004
Species WV OV AN LI BR HA NA LG LX
Abrostola asclepiadis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
         
Abrostola tripartita (Hufnagel, 1766)
= urticae (Hübner, 1817)
= triplasia sensu auct., nec (Linnaeus, 1758)
Abrostola triplasia (Linnaeus, 1758)
= trigemina (Werneburg, 1864)
Acronicta aceris (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acronicta alni (Linnaeus, 1767)
     
Acronicta auricoma ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Acronicta cuspis (Hübner, 1813)
       
Acronicta euphorbiae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
           
Acronicta leporina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acronicta megacephala ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Acronicta menyanthidis (Esper, 1789)
       
Acronicta psi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acronicta rumicis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Acronicta strigosa [(Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
       
Acronicta tridens ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Actebia praecox (Linnaeus, 1758)
       
   
Actinotia polyodon (Clerck, 1759)
= perspicillaris (Linnaeus, 1761)
 
Agnorisma punicea (Hübner, 1803)            
Agrochola circellaris (Hufnagel, 1766)
= ferruginea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Agrochola helvola (Linnaeus, 1758)
= rufina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agrochola humilis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
               
Agrochola litura (Linnaeus, 1761)
         
Agrochola lota (Clerck, 1759)
Agrochola lychnidis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= pistacina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Agrochola macilenta (Hübner, 1809)
Agrochola nitida ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
             
Agrochola pistacinoides (d'Aubuisson, 1867)
= dujardini Dufay, 1975
           
 

Agrotis bigramma (Esper, 1790)
= crassa (Hübner, 1803)

           
Agrotis cinerea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
     
Agrotis clavis (Hufnagel, 1766)
= corticea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Agrotis exclamationis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Agrotis ipsilon (Hufnagel, 1766)
= suffusa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Agrotis puta (Hübner, 1803)
= radius (Haworth, 1803)
Agrotis ripae (Hübner, 1823)
     
   
Agrotis segetum ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Agrotis trux (Hübner, 1824)          
   
Agrotis vestigialis (Hufnagel, 1766)
= valligera [(Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
     
Allophyes oxyacanthae (Linnaeus, 1758)
Ammoconia caecimacula ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
     
Amphipoea fucosa (Freyer, 1830)
 
Amphipoea lucens (Freyer, 1845)
           
Amphipoea oculea (Linnaeus, 1761)
= nictitans (Linnaeus, 1767)
= chrysographa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Amphipyra berbera Rungs, 1949
Amphipyra perflua (Fabricius, 1787)
           
Amphipyra pyramidea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Amphipyra tragopoginis (Clerck, 1759)
Anaplectoides prasina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= herbida ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Anarta myrtilli (Linnaeus, 1761)
 
Antitype chi (Linnaeus, 1758)
         
Apamea anceps ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= sordida (Borkhausen, 1792)
= infesta (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
Apamea aquila (Donzel, 1837)
= funerea (Heinemann, 1859)
       
   
Apamea crenata (Hufnagel, 1766)
= rurea (Fabricius, 1775)
Apamea epomidion (Haworth, 1809)
= hepatica sensu auct., nec (Clerck, 1759)
= characterea sensu auct., nec ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Apamea furva ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
         
Apamea illyria (Freyer, 1852)
         
Apamea lateritia (Hufnagel, 1766)
 
Apamea lithoxylaea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Apamea monoglypha (Hufnagel, 1766)
= polyodon (Linnaeus, 1761), nec (Clerck, 1759)
Apamea oblonga (Haworth, 1809)
= abjecta (Hübner, 1813)
   
Apamea ophiogramma (Esper, 1794)
Apamea remissa (Hübner, 1809)
= gemina (Hübner, 1813)
Apamea scolopacina (Esper, 1788)
Apamea sordens (Hufnagel, 1766)
= basilinea (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)
Apamea sublustris (Esper, 1788)    
Apamea unanimis (Hübner, 1813)
Aporophyla australis (Boisduval, 1829)
         
   
Aporophyla lueneburgensis (Freyer, 1848)
       
   
Aporophyla lutulenta ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
           
Aporophyla nigra (Haworth, 1809)
       
   
Archanara algae (Esper, 1789)
= cannae (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
 
Archanara dissoluta (Treitschke, 1825)
= arundinata (Schmidt, 1858)

 
Archanara geminipuncta (Haworth, 1809)
Archanara neurica (Hübner, 1808)
   
   
Archanara sparganii (Esper, 1790)
Arenostola phragmitidis (Hübner, 1803)
= semicana sensu auct., nec (Esper, 1798)
 
Asteroscopus sphinx (Hufnagel, 1766)
= cassinia ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Atethmia centrago (Haworth, 1809)
= xerampelina (Hübner, 1809), nec (Esper, 1794)
Athetis gluteosa (Treitschke, 1835)
               
Athetis pallustris (Hübner, 1808)
           
 
Autographa bractea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Autographa gamma (Linnaeus, 1758)
Autographa jota (Linnaeus, 1758)
Autographa pulchrina (Haworth, 1809)
= v-aureum (Guenée, 1852)
Axylia putris (Linnaeus, 1761)
Brachionycha nubeculosa (Esper, 1785)
           
Brachylomia viminalis (Fabricius, 1777)
 
Calamia tridens (Hufnagel, 1766)
= virens (Linnaeus, 1767)
Callistege mi (Clerck, 1759)
Callopistria juventina (Stoll, 1782)
 
 
Calophasia lunula (Hufnagel, 1766)
= linariae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Caradrina morpheus (Hufnagel, 1766)
Catephia alchymista ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Catocala electa (Vieweg, 1790)
      L L   L  
Catocala fraxini (Linnaeus, 1758)
       L    
Catocala fulminea (Scopoli, 1763)
             
Catocala nupta (Linnaeus, 1767)
Catocala nymphagoga (Esper, 1787)
   
 
 
Catocala promissa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Catocala sponsa (Linnaeus, 1767)
Celaena haworthii Curtis, 1829
  L  
Celaena leucostigma (Hübner, 1808)
Ceramica pisi (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cerapteryx graminis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Cerastis leucographa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Cerastis rubricosa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Charanyca trigrammica (Hufnagel, 1766)
= trilinea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Chersotis margaritacea (De Villers, 1789)
               
Chersotis multangula (Hübner, 1803)
             
Chilodes maritima (Tauscher, 1806)
   
Chloantha hyperici ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Chortodes elymi (Treitschke, 1825)
         
   
Chortodes extrema (Hübner, 1809)
 
Chortodes fluxa (Hübner, 1809)
= hellmanni (Eversmann, 1843)
 
Chortodes pygmina (Haworth, 1809)
= fulva (Hübner, 1813)
Chrysodeixis chalcites (Esper, 1789)
 
Coenobia rufa (Haworth, 1809)
   
Colobochyla salicalis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
     
Colocasia coryli (Linnaeus, 1758)
Conistra erythrocephala ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Conistra ligula (Esper, 1791)
 
Conistra rubiginea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Conistra rubiginosa (Scopoli, 1763)
= silene ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= vaupunctatum (Esper, 1786)
Conistra vaccinii (Linnaeus, 1761)
Coranarta cordigera (Thunberg, 1788)            
 
Cosmia affinis (Linnaeus, 1767)
Cosmia diffinis (Linnaeus, 1767)
       
Cosmia pyralina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cosmia trapezina (Linnaeus, 1758)
Craniophora ligustri ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cryphia algae (Fabricius, 1775)
Cryphia domestica (Hufnagel, 1766)
= perla ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cryphia muralis (Forster, 1771)
= glandifera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cryphia raptricula ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cryphia ravula (Hübner, 1813)
= lupula (Hübner, 1813)
           
Crypsedra gemmea (Treitschke, 1825)            
Cucullia absinthii (Linnaeus, 1761)
Cucullia artemisiae (Hufnagel, 1766)
          L  
Cucullia asteris ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cucullia chamomillae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Cucullia gnaphalii (Hübner, 1813)
           
 
Cucullia lactucae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
           
 
Cucullia lucifuga [[Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
               
Cucullia umbratica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Deltote bankiana (Fabricius, 1775)
= olivana ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= argentula (Hübner, 1787)
Deltote deceptoria (Scopoli, 1763)
= atratula ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
       
Diachrysia chrysitis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Diachrysia chryson (Esper, 1789)
           
Diarsia brunnea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Diarsia dahlii (Hübner, 1813)
         
Diarsia florida (F. Schmidt, 1886)
L L         L
Diarsia mendica (Fabricius, 1775)
= festiva ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= conflua (Treitschke, 1827)
Diarsia rubi (Vieweg, 1790)
= bella (Borkhausen, 1792)
Dicycla oo (Linnaeus, 1758)
       
Diloba caeruleocephala (Linnaeus, 1758)
Dryobotodes eremita (Fabricius, 1775)
= protea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Dypterygia scabriuscula (Linnaeus, 1758)
= pinastri (Linnaeus, 1761)
Dysgonia algira (Linnaeus, 1767)  
 


Egira conspicillaris (Linnaeus, 1758)
         
Elaphria venustula (Hübner, 1790)
Emmelia trabealis (Scopoli, 1763)
= sulphurea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
       
Enargia paleacea (Esper, 1788)
= fulvago ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Epilecta linogrisea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
           
Episema glaucina (Esper, 1789)
             
Eremobia ochroleuca ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Eremobina pabulatricula (Brahm, 1791)
             
Eublemma minutata (Fabricius, 1794)
= noctualis (Hübner, 1796)
             
Eublemma parva (Hübner, 1808)
             
Euchalcia modestoides Poole, 1989
= modesta (Hübner, 1786), nec (Cramer, 1777)
           
Euclidia glyphica (Linnaeus, 1758)
Eugnorisma glareosa (Esper, 1788)
= hebraeica (Hübner, 1819)
   
Eugraphe sigma ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= signum (Fabricius, 1787)
         
Euplexia lucipara (Linnaeus, 1758)
Eupsilia transversa (Hufnagel, 1766)
= satelitia (Linnaeus, 1767)
Eurois occulta (Linnaeus, 1758)
 
Euxoa aquilina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
             
Euxoa cursoria (Hufnagel, 1766)
       
Euxoa nigricans (Linnaeus, 1761)
= fumosa ([Denis & Schiffermülle]r, 1775)
Euxoa obelisca ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
       
Euxoa tritici (Linnaeus, 1761)
= crypta (Dadd, 1927)
 
Gortyna flavago ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= ochracea (Hübner, 1786), nec (Scopoli, 1763)
Graphiphora augur (Fabricius, 1775)
Griposia aprilina (Linnaeus, 1758)    
Hada plebeja (Linnaeus, 1761)
= nana (Hufnagel, 1766)
= dentina ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Hadena albimacula (Borkhausen, 1792)
       
Hadena bicruris (Hufnagel, 1766)
= capsincola ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Hadena compta ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Hadena confusa (Hufnagel, 1766)
= conspersa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= nana (Rottemburg, 1775), nec (Hufnagel, 1766)
Hadena filograna (Esper, 1788)
= filigrama (Esper, 1796)
           
Hadena perplexa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= lepida (Esper, 1790), nec (Cramer, 1777)
     
Hadula odontites (Boisduval, 1829)
= microdon (Guenée, 1852)
= marmorosa (Borkhausen, 1792)
             
Hadula trifolii (Hufnagel, 1766)
= chenopodii ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= treitschkei (Hübner, 1822)
Hecatera bicolorata (Hufnagel, 1766)
= serena ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Hecatera dysodea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= spinaciae (Vieweg, 1789)
= chrysozona (Borkhausen, 1792)
Helicoverpa armigera (Hübner, 1808)
 
Heliothis maritima de Graslin, 1855
           
Heliothis nubigera Herrich-Schäffer, 1851
       
Heliothis peltigera ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
 
Heliothis viriplaca (Hufnagel, 1766)
= dipsacea (Linnaeus, 1767)
         
Herminia grisealis ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= nemoralis (Fabricius, 1775), nec (Scopoli, 1763)
Herminia tarsicrinalis (Knoch, 1782)
Hoplodrina ambigua ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= plantaginis (Hübner, 1813)
Hoplodrina blanda ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= taraxaci (Hübner, 1813)
Hoplodrina octogenaria (Goeze, 1781)
= alsines (Brahm, 1791)
Hoplodrina respersa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
       
Hoplodrina superstes (Ochsenheimer, 1816)
L           L  
Hydraecia micacea (Esper, 1789)
Hydraecia petasitis Doubleday, 1847
     
Hypena crassalis (Fabricius, 1787)
= fontis (Thunberg, 1788)
 
Hypena obsitalis (Hübner, 1813)








Hypena proboscidalis (Linnaeus, 1758)
Hypena rostralis (Linnaeus, 1758)
 
Hypenodes humidalis Doubleday, 1850
= turfosalis (Wocke, 1850)
     
Hyppa rectilinea (Esper, 1788)
           
Ipimorpha retusa (Linnaeus, 1761)
Ipimorpha subtusa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Jodia croceago ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Lacanobia amurensis Staudinger, 1901
= aliena (Hübner, 1809)
             
Lacanobia contigua ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Lacanobia oleracea (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lacanobia splendens (Hübner, 1808)
         
Lacanobia suasa ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= dissimilis (Knoch, 1781)
Lacanobia thalassina (Hufnagel, 1766)
Lacanobia w-latinum (Hufnagel, 1766)
= genistae (Borkhausen, 1792), nec (De Villers, 1789)
Lamprosticta culta ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= viridana (Walch, 1779)
               
Lamprotes c-aureum (Knoch, 1781)
= concha (Fabricius, 1787)
        L L
Lasionycta proxima (Hübner, 1809)
             
Laspeyria flexula ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= flexularia (Hübner, 1799)
Leucania comma (Linnaeus, 1761)
Leucania obsoleta (Hübner, 1803)
Lithacodia uncula (Clerck, 1759)
= unca ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
   
Lithomoia solidaginis (Hübner, 1803)          
Lithophane furcifera (Hufnagel, 1766)
     
Lithophane lamda (Fabricius, 1787)
= zinckenii (Treitschke, 1826)
           
Lithophane leautieri (Boisduval, 1829)    
Lithophane ornitopus (Hufnagel, 1766)
= rizolitha ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Lithophane semibrunnea (Haworth, 1809)
= petrificata sensu De Sélys-Longchamps, 1844
Lithophane socia (Hufnagel, 1766)
= petrificata ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
     
Luperina dumerilii (Duponchel, 1826)
             
Luperina testacea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Lycophotia molothina (Esper, 1789)
= ericae (Boisduval, 1829)
     
Lycophotia porphyrea ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
= strigula (Thunberg, 1792), nec ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
Lygephila craccae ([Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775)
           
Lygephila pastinum (Treitschke, 1826)
= lusoria sensu auct., nec (Linnaeus, 1758)
Lygephila viciae (Hübner, 1822)
              L
Macdunnoughia confusa (Stephens, 1850)