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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic_taxobox
| image = Blenina angulipennis.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Blenina angulipennis]]''
| taxon = Blenina
| authority = [[Francis Walker (entomologist)|Walker]], [1858]
| synonyms =
*''Eliocroea'' <small>Walker, 1865</small>
*''Amrella'' <small>Moore, 1882</small>
}}
'''Bleninae''' is a [[monotypic]] [[subfamily]] of the [[moth]] [[Family (biology)|family]] [[Nolidae]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/nolidae/bleninae/ |title=Bleninae |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 13, 2019}}</ref> Its single genus, '''''Blenina''''', was erected by [[Francis Walker (entomologist)|Francis Walker]] in 1858.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/nolidae/bleninae/blenina/ |title=''Blenina'' Walker, [1858] |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=January 13, 2019 |archive-date=July 20, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190720172238/http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/nolidae/bleninae/blenina/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>
==Description==
Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head, and third joint moderate length. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with slight tufts at the base on the dorsum. Forewings short and square, with nearly rectangular apex. Inner margin lobed near base. Slight tufts of raised scaled can be seen on antemedial, medial, and postmedial lines and on discocellulars. The areole are long and narrow. The retinaculum is bar shaped in the male. Hindwings with veins 2, 3, 4 and 5 arise from lower angle of cell.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |date=1894 |authorlink=George Hampson |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/403/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |pages=377 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species==
*''[[Blenina accipiens]]'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small>
*''[[Blenina albifascia]]'' <small>Pinhey, 1968</small>
*''[[Blenina angulipennis]]'' <small>(Moore, 1882)</small>
*''[[Blenina astarte]]'' <small>(Fawcett, 1916)</small>
*''[[Blenina brevicosta]]'' <small>Prout, 1921</small>
*''[[Blenina chloromelana]]'' <small>(Mabille, 1890)</small>
*''[[Blenina chlorophila]]'' <small>Hampson, 1905</small>
*''[[Blenina chrysochlora]]'' <small>(Walker, 1865)</small>
*''[[Blenina diagona]]'' <small>Hampson, 1912</small>
*''[[Blenina donans]]'' <small>Walker, [1858]</small>
*''[[Blenina ephesioides]]'' <small>Pagenstecher, 1886</small>
*''[[Blenina friederici]]'' <small>Gaede, 1935</small>
*''[[Blenina fumosa]]'' <small>Swinhoe, 1905</small>
*''[[Blenina hyblaeoides]]'' <small>Kenrick, 1917</small>
*''[[Blenina lichenopa]]'' <small>(Meyrick, 1897)</small>
*''[[Blenina lichenosa]]'' <small>Moore, 1877</small>
*''[[Blenina malachitis]]'' <small>Hampson, 1905</small>
*''[[Blenina malagasy]]'' <small>Viette, 1979</small>
*''[[Blenina metanyctea]]'' <small>Hampson, 1905</small>
*''[[Blenina metascia]]'' <small>Hampson, 1914</small>
*''[[Blenina miota]]'' <small>Hampson, 1905</small>
*''[[Blenina mniois]]'' <small>Proute, 1925</small>
*''[[Blenina obliquinaria]]'' <small>Hampson, 1912</small>
*''[[Blenina puloa]]'' <small>Swinhoe, 1901</small>
*''[[Blenina quadripuncta]]'' <small>Hampson, 1902</small>
*''[[Blenina quinaria]]'' <small>Moore, 1882</small>
*''[[Blenina richardi]]'' <small>Viette, 1958</small>
*''[[Blenina samphirophora]]'' <small>Turner, 1920</small>
*''[[Blenina senex]]'' <small>(Butler, 1878)</small>
*''[[Blenina smaragdina]]'' <small>Bethune-Baker, 1906</small>
*''[[Blenina squamifera]]'' <small>(Wallengren, 1860)</small>
*''[[Blenina viridata]]'' <small>Bethune-Baker, 1906</small>
==References==
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