Dinumma

Dinumma
Dinumma combusta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Scoliopteryginae
Tribe:	Anomini
Genus:	Dinumma Walker, 1858
Synonyms
OrtheagaWalker, 1865 ParalophaBethune-Baker, 1908

Dinumma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Description

Palpi smoothly scaled and upturned. Second joint reaching just above vertex of head, and third joint moderate length. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with a series of dorsal tufts. Tibia moderately hair. Forewings of nearly even width throughout, the apex and outer margin rounded. Hindwings with vein 5 from lower angle of cell. ^[4]

Species

• Dinumma deponens Walker, 1858 India, Thailand, China, Japan, Korea, introduced to the United States ^[5]
• Dinumma combusta (Walker, 1865) Sundaland
• Dinumma hades Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
• Dinumma inagnulata Hampson, 1902 Sikkim
• Dinumma mediobrunnea Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
• Dinumma oxygrapha (Snellen, 1880) Singapore, Borneo, Bali, Dammer, Kei, Philippines, Sulawesi
• Dinumma placens Walker, 1858 Sri Lanka
• Dinumma rubiginea (Bethune-Baker, 1908) New Guinea
• Dinumma spiculata Holloway, 2005 Borneo
• Dinumma stygia Hampson, 1926 New Guinea
• Dinumma varians Butler, 1889 India (Himachal Pradesh)

References

1. Savela, Markku (August 18, 2019). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Dinumma​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved June 22, 2020.
3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London . Retrieved June 22, 2020.
4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
5. Adams, J.K., P. Van Zandt, T. Neal, 2013. Dinumma deponens, Walker 1858 (Erebidae) is here to stay. News of the Lepidopterists' Society, 55(4): 176-177.