Hypenodes is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae erected by Henry Doubleday in 1850.
Taxonomy The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Strepsimaninae of the family Noctuidae.
Description Palpi with second joint long and fringed with long hair above. Third joint short, naked and oblique. Frontal tuft is short. Antennae ringed and minutely ciliated in male. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with a basal dorsal tuft and almost naked tibia in legs. Forewings long and narrow. Veins 6 and 7 from near end of ell and stalked veins 8, 10 where vein 9 absent. Hindwings with veins 3,4 and 6,7 stalked. Vein 5 arise from middle of discocellulars.
Species The humidalis species group Hypenodes caducus Dyar, 1907 – large hypenodes moth Hypenodes curvilinea Sugi, 1982 Hypenodes fractilinea J. B. Smith, 1908 – broken-line hypenodes moth Hypenodes franclemonti Ferguson, 1954 Hypenodes humidalis Doubleday, 1850 - marsh oblique-barred moth Hypenodes palustris Ferguson, 1954 (misspelled Hypenodes plaustris) Hypenodes rectifascia Sugi, 1982 Hypenodes sombrus Ferguson, 1954 The kalchbergi species group Hypenodes kalchbergi Staudinger, 1876 The orientalis species group Hypenodes anatolica Schwingenschuss, 1938 Hypenodes crimeana Fibiger, Pekarsky & Ronkay, 2010 Hypenodes cypriaca Fibiger, Pekarsky & Ronkay, 2010 Hypenodes nesiota Rebel, 1916 Hypenodes orientalis Staudinger, 1901 Hypenodes pannonica Fibiger, Pekarsky & Ronkay, 2010 Hypenodes turcomanica Fibiger, Pekarsky & Ronkay, 2010 Species group unknown Hypenodes dubia Schaus, 1913 Hypenodes haploa D. S. Fletcher, 1961 Hypenodes insciens Dognin, 1914 Hypenodes minimalis Snellen, 1890 Hypenodes modesta Schaus, 1913 Hypenodes obliqualis Snellen, 1890 Hypenodes prionodes D. S. Fletcher, 1961 Hypenodes pudicalis Snellen, 1890
References
Doubleday (1850). Zoologist 8