Olulis

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Olulis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Olulis
Walker, 1863 [1] [2]
Type species
Olulis puncticinctalis
Walker, 1863 [3] [2]
Synonyms
  • HamaxiaWalker, 1863 [4]
  • PhachthiaWalker, 1864 [5]

Olulis is a genus in the moth family Erebidae. There are about eight described species in Olulis, found in South, Southeast, and East Asia, and in Australia. [6] [7]

Contents

This genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1863. [7]

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching above vertex of head, and long third joint naked. Antennae ciliated. Thorax and abdomen without tufts. Mid legs of male with a large hair from base of tibia. Forewings long and narrow with acute apex. The outer margin angled at middle. Veins 8 to 10 from before the angle and stalked. Hindwings with stalked veins 3 and 4. Veins 5 from near middle of discocellulars. [8]

Species

These eight species belong to the genus Olulis: [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Olulis​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  2. 1 2 Walker, Francis (1863). "Genus 77. Olulis". Crambites & Tortricites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 27. London: Edward Newman. pp. 126–127.
  3. ↑ Olulis at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
  4. ↑ Walker, Francis (1863). "Genus 79. Hamaxia". Crambites & Tortricites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 27. London: Edward Newman. p. 128.
  5. ↑ Walker, Francis (1864). "Genus Phachthia". Tineites. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Vol. 30. London: Edward Newman. pp. 979–980.
  6. 1 2 "Olulis". GBIF. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  7. 1 2 3 "Olulis Walker, 1863". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-19.
  8. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). "Genus Olulis". The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. p. 65 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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