Chloridea

Chloridea is a genus of owlet moths in the family Noctuidae. There are at least three described species in Chloridea.^[1][2]

Chloridea
Chloridea virescens larva
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Heliothinae
Genus:	Chloridea Duncan & Westwood, 1841

Chloridea subflexa

The species of Chloridea were formerly members of the genus Heliothis, but were moved to Chloridea when it was reinstated as valid genus as a result of research published in 2013.^[2][3]

Species

These species belong to the genus Chloridea:^[2]

• Chloridea subflexa (Guenée, 1852) (subflexus straw moth)
• Chloridea tergemina (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)
• Chloridea virescens (Fabricius, 1777) (tobacco budworm moth)