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Home » Guide » Arthropods (Arthropoda) » Insects (Insecta) » Butterflies and Moths (Lepidoptera) » Moths » Noctuoidea » Owlet Moths (Noctuidae) » Agaristinae » Wood Nymphs (Eudryas)

Genus Eudryas - Wood Nymphs

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Eudryas grata Wood Nymph - Eudryas unio Species Eudryas unio - Pearly Wood-Nymph - Eudryas unio pearly wood nymph - Eudryas unio Eudryas unio Catapillar - Eudryas unio please help id this caterpillar... - Eudryas unio Pearly Wood-Nymph - Eudryas unio orange caterpillar - Eudryas grata
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
No Taxon (Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Agaristinae
Genus Eudryas (Wood Nymphs)
Explanation of Names
Author of genus is Boisduval, 1836. (Jean de Boisduval 1801-1879, see UNL.) Greek dryas or dryad is a mythological wood-nymph (spirit). I presume the prefix -eu is also Greek, meaning "good, well, or true". (Based on Internet searches.)
Numbers
Nearctica.com lists three species.
Contributed by Cotinis on 29 March, 2004 - 1:22pm
Last updated 20 February, 2005 - 9:22am

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