| Olepa | |
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| Olepa sp. at Kerala, India | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Olepa Watson, 1980 |
| Type species | |
| Alope ocellifera Walker, 1855 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Olepa is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was described by Watson in 1980. Most part of species occur in India and Sri Lanka, though one species was described from Israel.
The Arctiinae are a large and diverse subfamily of moths, with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This group includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths, which usually have bright colours, footmen, which are usually much drabber, lichen moths, and wasp moths. Many species have "hairy" caterpillars that are popularly known as woolly bears or woolly worms. The scientific name of this subfamily refers to this hairiness. Some species within the Arctiinae have the word tussock in their common name due to people misidentifying them as members of the Lymantriinae based on the characteristics of the larvae.
The Arctiini are a tribe of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Agrisius is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.
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.
Creatonotos is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics, South and East Asia, Sundaland and Australia.
Palearctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Nudaria is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae erected by Adrian Hardy Haworth in 1809.
Oroncus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae.
Spilarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875.
Olepa ricini is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1775. It is found in Bangladesh, India, Nepal, and Sri Lanka. An older treatment placed the species in the genus Pericallia.
Olepa toulgoeti is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in southern India.
Olepa koslandana is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Olepa anomi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Olepa duboisi is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Orhant in 1986. It is found in Sri Lanka.
Olepa ocellifera is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in India and Sri Lanka.
Eyralpenus meinhofi is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Erebidae first described by Max Bartel in 1903. It is known from the east and central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia, Zambia, Angola, Zaire ; Malawi ; Zaire ; Zimbabwe.
Juxtarctia multiguttata is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the subfamily Arctiinae, endemic for Himalayas. It is known from India: north-west Himalayas, Sikkim, Assam; Nepal; Bhutan; Myanmar; China: Tibet within western slopes of the Himalayas; Indochina.
Olepa coromandelica is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was found in India in the 19th century on the Coromandel Coast. No modern specimens have been collected later. Probably, it is extinct now.
Orhantarctia is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae from Lesser Sundaland: Lombok and Flores. The genus was erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Yasunori Kishida in 2005.
Amerila eugenia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in China, Pakistan (Karachi), central and southern India and Sri-Lanka.
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