Skip to content
EntityQ5274992· pop 8· linked from 7 articles

Dierna is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1859.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyErebidae

via GBIF

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Erebidae
Show 4 more facts
taxon name
Dierna
taxon rank
genus
topic's main category
Category:Dierna
Commons category
Dierna
Sources (1)

via Wikidata · CC0

~1 min read

Encyclopedic overview

3 sections
Contents
  • Description
  • Species
  • References

Dierna is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1859.

==Description== Palpi with second joint upcurved, slender and reaching above vertex of head. Third joint long and acute. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Forewings with acute apex. Hindwings with short inner margin. Outer margin angled at vein 2. Vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dierna” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

Available in 8 languages

via Wikidata sitelinks · CC0