Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea
Noctuidae
Amphipyrinae
Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816
Phalaena tragopoginis Clerck, 1759 [1764]
= Scotophila Hübner, [1821] 1816: 209 (TS: Phalaena tyagopoginis Clerck, 1759 [1764], but included by Hübner as ‘tragopogonis Linn’, an incorrect subsequent spelling and authorship), by subsequent designation by Blanchard, in Castelnau (1840): 500 (but cited as tragopoginis Linn, an incorrect authorship). Scotophila is a junior objective synonym of Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816.
= Pyrophyla Hübner [1806] (Included in a work rejected for nomenclatural purposes by Int. Commn zool. Nom., 1926, Opinion 97: 19). Pyrophyla was not used again in zoology. A similar name Pyrophila Stephens, 1829, was subsequently proposed.
= Pyrophila Stephens, 1829: 164 (TS: Phalaena tragopoginis Clerck, 1759 [1764], by subsequent designation by Westwood (1840): 94, but an invalid type designation. Pyrophila is a junior objective synonym of Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816.
= Philopyra Guenée, 1838: 222 (Proposed, unnecessarily, as an objective replacement name for Pyrophila Stephens, 1829)
= Neocomia Rougemont, 1901: 372 (TS: Amphipyra satinea Rougemont, 1901: 371)
= Pyramidcampa Beck, [1992] 1991: 218 (TS: Phalaena (Noctua) pyramidea Linnaeus, 1758: 518)
= Adpyramidcampa Beck, [1992] 1991: 219 (TS: Amphipyra effusa Boisduval, 1829: 68)
= Adamphipyra Beck, [1992] 1991: 219 (TS: Noctua livida [Denis & Schiffermüller], 1775: 85)
= Tetrapyra Beck, [1992] 1991: 219 (TS: Noctua tetra Fabricius, 1787: 138)
= Antiamphipyra Beck, [1992] 1991: 220 (TS: Amphipyra micans Lederer, 1857: 94)
= Anpyramidea Beck, 1996: 7, 51 (TS: Amphipyra stix Herrich-Schäffer, [1850]: 324, (41): f. 473)
= Obtuscampa Beck, 1996: 7, 52 (TS: Noctua perflua Fabricius, 1787: 179)
Amphipyra Ochsenheimer, 1816
Amphipyra (Amphipyra ) cupreipennis Moore, 1882
Darjiling [Darjeeling, West Bengal, India]
Distribution
Tawang
Arunachal Pradesh, Himachal Pradesh, Nagaland, Sikkim, Uttarakhand, West Bengal
Indian Himalaya, North East