Niphonyx
Genus and species of moth
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Niphonyx is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Shigero Sugi in 1982. Its only species, Niphonyx segregata, the hops angleshade, was first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.[1][2][3] It is endemic to eastern Asia, including the Russian Far East, the Korean Peninsula, Japan, China and Taiwan. It was introduced to the north-eastern United States in the 1990s and is found from Connecticut south to at least Delaware.
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Subfamily: | Condicinae |
| Genus: | Niphonyx Sugi in Inoue, Sugi, Kuroko, Moriuti & Kawabe, 1982 |
| Species: | N. segregata |
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| Niphonyx segregata (Butler, 1878) | |
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The wingspan is 25–30 mm. There are two generations per year in North America.
The larvae feed on hop species.
