Butterflies and Moths of the World Generic Names and their Type-species

Genus:
Aporophyla Guenée, 1841 . Annls Soc. ent. Fr. 10 : 246.    [BHL]

Status:
Available Name

Homonyms: 1

Higher classification:
NOCTUOIDEA : NOCTUIDAE : CUCULLIINAE

Type-species:
Xylina australis Boisduval, 1829. Index meth. Eur. Lepid. : 6.

Type-species designation:
by monotypy .

Type specimens:
Type(s) [FRANCE]: Galloprov, (? Depository)..

Notes:
Poole (1989) included PHYLAPORA Berio, 1980 as a junior synonym of APOROPHYLA Guenée, 1841.

Poole (1989) included 9 species in the genus APOROPHYLA.

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Junior name(s):
Aporophila ; Köhler, 1979: 16, 23.
Aporophilas ; Köhler, 1979: 22.
Aporophylla ; Neave, 1939: 261.