Erebidae

Herminiinae

Polypogon Schrank, 1802

Phalaena tentacularia Linnaeus, 1758: 522 (but included by Schrank as <i>Pyralis tentaculalis</i>, by subsequent designation by Grote (1895): 174

= Adrapsoides Matsumura, 1925: 153 (TS: Adrapsa reticulatis Leech, 1900: 616)
= Aulocheta Prout, 1927: 228 (TS: Aulocheta violacea Prout, 1927: 228)
= Cleptomita Grote, 1873: 301 (TS: Cleptomita atrilineella Grote, 1873: 301)
= Gryphopogon Beck, 1996: 23 (TS: Herminia gryphalis Herrich-Schäffer, 1851: 23)
= Hormisa Walker, [1859] 1858: 74 (TS: Hormisa absorptalis Walker, [1859] 1858: 74)
= Litognatha Grote, 1873: 85 (TS: Litognatha nubilifascia Grote, 1873: 85)
= Macrochilo Hübner, [1825] 1816: 345 (TS: Pyralis cribralis Hübner, 1796: 2). Cited as
= Macrochila (an incorrect subsequent spelling)
= Megachyta Grote, 1873: 306 (TS: Epizeuxis lituralis Hübner, 1818: 9)
= Erpyzon Hübner, 1808: 4, 5. Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by Int. Commn zool. Nom., 1966, Opinion 789: 214. Placed on the official index of rejected and invalid generic names in Zoology. Name No. 1841. Erpyzon lituralis Hübner, 1808: 4, was subsequently made nomenclaturally available as Epizeuxis lituralis Hübner, 1818, and cited as type species by Berio, 1957: 13 (Nye 1975)
= Mesoplectra Butler, 1879: 65 (TS: Mesoplectra lilacina Butler, 1879: 65)
= Microphta Berio, 1988 [1989]: 217 (TS: Pechipogo plumigeralis Hübner, 1825: 345)
= Nyctennomos Hampson, 1926: 442 (TS: Nyctennomos peratosema Hampson, 1926: 442–443)
= Pallachira Grote, 1877: 197 (TS: Pallachira bivittata Grote, 1877: 198)
= Paracolax Hübner, [1825] 1816: 344 (TS: Pyralis derivalis Hübner, 1796: pl. 3)
= Pechipogo Hübner, [1825] 1816: 345 (TS: Pyralis pectitalis Hübner, 1796: pl. 19)
= Pityolita Grote, 1873: 309 (TS: Herminia pedipilalis Guenée, in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852: 57)
= Sisyrhypena Grote, 1873: 227 (TS: Sisyrhypena pupiliaris Grote, 1873: 227)
= Tosacantha Fletcher, 1961: 250 (TS: Tosacantha atmocyma Fletcher, 1961: 250)
= Xylormisa Forbes, 1922: 101 (TS: Xylormisa louisiana Forbes, 1922: 101)
= Zanclognatha Lederer, 1857: 45, 211 (TS: Pyralis tarsiplumalis Hübner, 1796: pl. 19)
= Macrochila; Westwood 1840: 105 (an incorrect subsequent spelling of Macrochilo Hübner, [1825]; not to be confused with the available name Macrochila Stephens, 1829: 49)
= Macrochile; Walker [1859] 1858: 22, 96 (an incorrect subsequent spelling)

Polypogon mundiferalis Walker, [1866] 1865 (Anitha)