Aethalida | |
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Aethalida dora | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Aethalida Walker, [1865] |
Type species | |
Aethalida distinguenda Walker, [1865] 1864 | |
Synonyms | |
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Aethalida is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae that occur in the Sundaland and Philippines.
Amerila is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae. A number of species in this genus have a special defence mechanism when they are in their adult stage. When disturbed, they exude a frothy yellow fluid from glands beside the eyes, while making a sizzling noise to ward off their attacker. Similar behaviour has been observed in fertilised females of the North-American moth Utetheisa ornatrix.
Bucaea is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in Hindustan.
Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Lemyra is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus contains many species from East and South Asia, Sundaland and Australia. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856.
Leucaloa is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.
Nannoarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Nobutoyo Kôda in 1988.
Alphaea is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1855. They are found on India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Java only.
Arctia is species of tiger moth in the family Erebidae. It was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae. It can be found in central and eastern Europe, Kazakhstan, southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, Amur Region, Primorye, Sakhalin, Kunashir, northern and northeastern China, Korea and Japan.
Rajendra is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from India.
Satara is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from Sulawesi and South India. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1865.
Spilarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875.
Teracotona is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Nannoarctia takanoi, described by Jinhaku Sonan in 1934, is an endemic species of moth in the family Erebidae from Taiwan. It is probably extinct now; no specimens have been collected since World War II. The species was formerly known as Pericallia integraMatsumura, 1931, but specimens from Taiwan are not conspecific to those from the Philippines, where N. integra(Walker, 1855) occur.
Satara everetti is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in southern Sulawesi.
Nannoarctia conjuncta is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Indonesia.
Aethalida owadai is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Yasunori Kishida in 2005. It is found on Selayar Island and Flores in Indonesia.
Aethalida rudis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1864. It is found on Sulawesi in Indonesia.
Areas galactina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Jan van der Hoeven in 1840. It is found in China, Taiwan, the north-western Himalayas, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Indochina, the Philippines, Indonesia and Sundaland.
Argyarctia sericeipennis is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1933. It is found in China (Yunnan).
Satara nympha is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Yasunori Kishida in 2005. It is found in central Sulawesi.