Hyperstrotia Hampson, 1910

Han, Hui-Lin, 2011, Strotihypera, a new Old World genus of the tribe Elaphriini (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae, Noctuinae), Zootaxa 3116, pp. 59-68 : 66-67

Genus Hyperstrotia Hampson, 1910

Hyperstrotia Hampson, 1910 , Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: xvi, 556. Type-species: Thalpochares aetheria Grote, 1879 [ USA, Florida] (? = Cryphia nana Hübner, 1818 ).

Synonymy: Jaspidia Hübner, 1808 , suppr. (ICZN, 1966 Op. 789); Jaspidia Hübner, 1818 , unavailable; Protocryphia Barnes & McDunnough, 1918 .

The genus Hyperstrotia , into which Hampson (1910) originally placed two New World and eight Old World species, is currently belongs to the family Erebidae , subfamily Boletobiinae, tribe Phytometrinae ( Lafontaine & Schmidt 2010). However, the results of molecular analysis suggests the Phytometrinae is at best a tribe within the Boletobiinae (D. Lafontaine, pers. comm.; Holloway 2011; Zahiri et al. 2011). Poole (1989) listed ten Old World and six New World species of Hyperstrotia , however Hyperstotia is a heterogeneous assemblage in his concept and requires revision. Some Old World species of Hyperstrotia have already been transferred to other genera: Hyperstrotia inordinata (Walker, [1863] 1864) to Chorsia Walker , [1863] 1864; Hyperstrotia meeki Bethune-Baker, 1906 and Hyperstrotia molybdota Hampson, 1910 to Meekstrotia Holloway, 2009 of the subfamily Eustrotiinae ( Holloway 2009) . In the present article we have already transfered H. flavipuncta to the genus Strotihypera (Elaphriini, Noctuinae ). The systematic position of other Old World species ( Hyperstrotia albida Hampson, 1910 [ Irak]; H. ochreipuncta [ Taiwan]; H. macroplaga [ Sri Lanka]; H. semiochrea Hampson, 1898 [ India]; H. variata Wileman & West, 1929 [Philipines]) requires revision.