Lactura

Lactura
Lactura subfervens
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lacturidae
Genus:	Lactura Walker, 1854
Synonyms
List EustixisHübner, [1827-1831] DianasaWalker, 1854 MiezaWalker, 1854 SarbenaWalker, [1865] (preocc. SarbenaWalker, 1862) ThemiscyraWalker, [1865] CyptasiaWalker, 1866 BuxetaWalker, 1866 (replacement name for Sarbena) EnaemiaZeller, 1872 PseudotalaraDruce, 1885 PseudocaprimaWalsingham, 1900 EpidicticaTurner, 1903 HedycharisTurner, 1903 EriopyrrhaMeyrick, 1913

Lactura is a genus of moths in the family Lacturidae.

Selected species

• Lactura aglaodora (Turner, 1942)
• Lactura calliphylla (Turner, 1903)
• Lactura caminaea (Meyrick, 1887)
• Lactura cristata (Butler, 1886)
• Lactura dives (Walker, 1854)
• Lactura erythocera (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Lactura erythractis (Meyrick, 1887)
• Lactura haplochroa (Turner, 1932)
• Lactura laetifera (Walker, 1865)
• Lactura leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1907)
• Lactura mactata (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Lactura panopsia (Turner, 1926)
• Lactura parallela (Meyrick, 1889)
• Lactura phoenobapta (Turner, 1903)
• Lactura pilcheri (T.P. Lucas, 1891)
• Lactura pteropoecila (Turner, 1913)
• Lactura pyrilampis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Lactura pyronympha Meyrick, 1923
• Lactura quadrifrenis Meyrick, 1936 (from Para, Brazil)
• Lactura rhodomochla (Turner, 1942)
• Lactura rubritexta (Meyrick, 1913)
• Lactura sapotearum (Swainson, 1851)
• Lactura thiospila (Turner, 1903)

References

• Heppner, J.B., 1995: Lacturidae, new family (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). Tropical Lepidoptera Research6 (2): 146–148. Full article: .