Baniana

Baniana gobar
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Anobinae
Genus:	Baniana Walker, 1858

Baniana is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.^[1]^[2] The genus was previously classified in the subfamily Calpinae of the family Noctuidae.

Description

Palpi usually reaching vertex of head, where the third joint minute. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewings with slightly produced and falcate apex. Hindwings with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell.^[3]

Species

Baniana arvorum (Guenée 1852)
Baniana athamas Schaus 1914
Baniana centrata Dognin 1912
Baniana chelesema Hampson 1926
Baniana cohaerens Draudt 1950
Baniana craterosema Hampson 1926
Baniana culminifera Hampson 1910
Baniana disticta Hampson 1926
Baniana firmalis (Guenée, 1854)
Baniana fulvia Druce 1898
Baniana gobar Druce, in Godman and Salvin, 1898
Baniana gulussa Schaus 1914
Baniana gyas Schaus 1914
Baniana haga Schaus, 1912
Baniana helicon Druce 1898
Baniana helle Schaus 1914
Baniana herceus Schaus 1914
Baniana inaequalis Walker, 1862 (synonym: Baniana crucilla (Schaus, 1914))
Baniana lodebar Dyar 1916
Baniana mademalis (Viette, 1978)
Baniana mexicana Walker 1865
Baniana minor Lafontaine & Walsh, 2010
Baniana nephele Schaus 1914
Baniana ochracea Hampson 1926
Baniana octomaculata (Holland 1894)
Baniana omoptila Viette 1956
Baniana ostia Druce 1898
Baniana pastoria Schaus 1911
Baniana phaleniforma Dognin 1912
Baniana phruxus Schaus 1914
Baniana pulverulenta Hampson 1926
Baniana punctifera Dognin 1912
Baniana quadrimaculata (Holland 1894)
Baniana relapsa Walker, 1858
Baniana retrorsa Hampson 1926
Baniana semilugens (Walker 1858)
Baniana serpens Schaus 1914
Baniana sexmaculata (Holland 1894)
Baniana significans Walker, 1858
Baniana sminthochroa Hampson 1926
Baniana strigata Schaus 1911
Baniana suggesta (Walker 1858)
Baniana tincticollis (Walker 1858)
Baniana triangulifera Dognin 1912
Baniana trigrammos (Mabille 1881)
Baniana veluta Schaus, 1901
Baniana veluticollis Hampson 1898
Baniana ypita Schaus, 1901

References

Savela, Markku. "Baniana". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

^ Lafontaine, Donald; Schmidt, Christian (19 Mar 2010). "Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico". ZooKeys (40): 26. doi:10.3897/zookeys.40.414.
^ Zahiri, Reza; et al. (2011). "Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)". Systematic Entomology. 37: 102–124. doi:10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x. S2CID 84249695.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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Taxon identifiers
Baniana	Wikidata: Q1367350 Wikispecies: Baniana BioLib: 742493 BOLD: 47076 BugGuide: 834308 ButMoth: 3540.0 CoL: 923K7 EoL: 68329 GBIF: 9068729 iNaturalist: 82084 IRMNG: 1277122 ITIS: 937070 LepIndex: 282781 NCBI: 695640 Open Tree of Life: 555006