Dysgonia algira

Dysgonia algira, the passenger, is a moth of the family Noctuidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in 1767 and is found in the Palearctic - from the southern half of Europe and parts of North Africa through West, Central and South Asia.

Dysgonia algira
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dysgonia
Species:
D. algira
Binomial name
Dysgonia algira
(Linnaeus, 1767)
Synonyms
List
    • Phalaena algira Linnaeus, 1767
    • Noctua triangularis Hübner, [1803]
    • Ophiusa albivitta Guenée, 1852
    • Ophiusa festina Walker, 1858
    • Ophiusa olympia Swinhoe, 1885
    • Grammodes algira var. europa Schawerda, 1912
    • Grammodes algira f. defecta Stauder, 1923
    • Parallelia algira sinica Bryk, 1949
    • Dysgonia achatina Sulzer, 1776
    • Dysgonia defecta (Stauder, 1923)
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