Poppaea (moth)

Poppaea is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae containing the sole species Poppaea sabina, known from East Africa.Beccaloni G., Scoble M., Kitching I., Simonsen T., Robinson G., Pitkin B., Hine A. & Lyal C. (2016). LepIndex: The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (version 12.3, Jan 2012). In: Species 2000 & ITIS Catalogue of Life, 29th January 2016 (Roskov Y., Abucay L., Orrell T., Nicolson D., Kunze T., Flann C., Bailly N., Kirk P., Bourgoin T., DeWalt R.E., Decock W., De Wever A., eds). Digital resource at http://www.catalogueoflife.org/col/details/species/id/b151bb83eb41665a10252e3ef4ba1330/source/tree Species 2000: Naturalis, Leiden, the Netherlands. ISSN 2405-8858. The moth's namesake was most likely Roman emperor Nero's second wife, Poppaea Sabina.

References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database