Sunira

Sunira
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Noctuinae
Tribe:	Xylenini
Genus:	Sunira Franclemont, 1950

Sunira is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. Sunira was treated as a subgenus of Agrochola by Ronkay et al. in 2001, but is still treated as a valid genus by Brian Pitkin et al. at Butterflies and Moths of the World (as of 2005) and at All-Leps (as of 2009).

If treated as a valid genus, it contains the following species:

• Sunira bicolorago (Guenée, 1852)
• Sunira decipiens (Grote, 1881)
• Sunira verberata (Smith, 1904)

References

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database