| Aethalopteryx | |
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| Male Aethalopteryx diksami | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Cossidae |
| Tribe: | Xyleutini |
| Genus: | Aethalopteryx Schoorl, 1990 |
| Type species | |
| Phragmatoecia atrireta Hampson, 1910 | |
| Species | |
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Aethalopteryx is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Aethalopteryx is distinguished from close relatives Trismelasmos Schoorl, 1990, Acosma Yakovlev, 2011, Strigocossus Houlbert, 1916 and Azygophleps Hampson, 1892 by having cup-shaped antennae in both sexes, forewings with slight reticulated patterns and reduced arms in males gnathos and particularly genital structure of the females.
Medium sized moths. Male and female antennae cup-shaped; forewing elongate with slight reticular pattern, often with a spot in the costal area and spots in the postdiscal area; hindwing with indistinct reticular pattern.
Species are primarily found in east Africa with some distributed elsewhere in Africa or in the Arabian peninsula.
Phragmataecia castaneae, the reed leopard or giant borer, is a moth of the family Cossidae. It was described by Jacob Hübner in 1790. It is found in central and southern Europe, the Middle East, the Caucasus, Transcaucasia, Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, north-western Iran, Iraq, Syria, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, India, Lebanon, Turkey, western China, south-western Siberia, Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
Paracataclysta is a monotypic moth genus in the family Crambidae described by Yutaka Yoshiyasu in 1983. Its single species, Paracataclysta fuscalis, was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in South-east Asia, northern Australia and Africa.
Plecoptera is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1852.
Mormogystia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Meharia is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Azygophleps is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Aethalopteryx forsteri is a moth in the family Cossidae. It is found in south-western Africa, including Namibia and South Africa.
Patoptoformis is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Asura varians is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Xyleutes is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Cossus is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1793.
The Zeuzerinae are a subfamily of the family Cossidae.
Metarbela is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae described by William Jacob Holland in 1893.
Afroarabiella is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Brachylia is a genus of moths in the family Cossidae.
Duomitus is a monotypic moth genus in the family Cossidae described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. Its only species, Duomitus ceramicus, described by Francis Walker in 1865, is found in Yunnan in China and from southern India and Malaysia to Sumatra, Ceram and New Guinea.
Orientozeuzera postexcisa is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found in Sri Lanka and possibly southern India.
Skeletophyllon kalinini is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2011. It is found in New Guinea.
Trismelasmos valentini is a moth in the family Cossidae. It was described by Yakovlev in 2011. It is found in New Guinea.
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