Fossia

Fossia
Fossia bachma, Vietnam
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Tribe:	Lithosiini
Genus:	Fossia Volynkin, Ivanova & Huang, 2019

Fossia is a genus in the moth family Erebidae. There are about five described species in Fossia, widespread in the Himalayan region, western and southern China, and Indochina. ^{[1] [2]}

Species

These five species belong to the genus Fossia:

• Fossia bachma (Volynkin & Černý, 2018)
• Fossia elongata (Černý, 2016)
• Fossia melanandra (Černý & Pinratana, 2009)
• Fossia punicea (Moore, 1878)
• Fossia sirikitae (Volynkin & Černý, 2018)

References

1. "Fossia Volynkin, Ivanova & Huang, 2019". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
2. Volynkin, Anton V.; Huang, Si-Yao; Ivanova, Maria S. (2019). "An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)" . Ecologica Montenegrina. 26. doi: 10.37828/em.2019.26.3 .

External links

• Citizen science observations for Fossia at iNaturalist
• Media related to Fossia at Wikimedia Commons