Ophiusa (moth)

Ophiusa
Ophiusa legendrei
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Ophiusini
Genus:	Ophiusa Ochsenheimer, 1816
Synonyms
AnuaWalker, 1858 HemachraSodoffsky, 1837 MeropisHübner, 1818 OphiogenesReichenbach, 1817 StenopisMabille, 1880 PeranuaBerio, 1959 SubanuaBerio, 1959 TrichanuaBerio, 1954 PerophiusaBerio, 1959

Ophiusa is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Ferdinand Ochsenheimer in 1816. ^[1]

Description

Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, where the second joint reaching vertex of head and third joint variable in length and longer in female than male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Mid tibia spiny and sometimes hind tibia as well. Tibia fringed with long hair in male. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin nearly straight. Hindwings with slightly angled outer margin at vein 2. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first pair or two pairs are rudimentary. ^[2]

Species

• Ophiusa alorensis (Gaede, 1938)
• Ophiusa alticola (Hampson, 1913)
• Ophiusa ambigua (Gerstaecker, 1871)
• Ophiusa anomala (Berio, 1955)
• Ophiusa arfaki Bethune-Baker 1910
• Ophiusa cancellata (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Ophiusa conspicienda (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa costiplaga (Hulstaert, 1924)
• Ophiusa dargei (Laporte, 1977)
• Ophiusa david (Holland, 1894)
• Ophiusa davidioides (Strand, 1918)
• Ophiusa dianaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa despecta (Holland, 1894)
• Ophiusa diagarmma Lower, 1903
• Ophiusa digona Mabille, 1879
• Ophiusa dilecta Walker, 1865
• Ophiusa discriminans (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa disjungens (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa fijiensis (Robinson, 1969)
• Ophiusa finifascia (Walker, 1858)
• Ophiusa flavociliata (Aurivillius, 1925)
• Ophiusa gonoptera Hampson, 1910
• Ophiusa grandidieri (Viette, 1966)
• Ophiusa hituense (Pagenstecher, 1884)
• Ophiusa hopei Boisduval, 1833
• Ophiusa hypoxantha (Hampson, 1918)
• Ophiusa inangulata (Gaede, 1917)
• Ophiusa indistincta Moore, 1882
• Ophiusa kenricki Bethune-Baker 1906
• Ophiusa legendrei Viette, 1966
• Ophiusa mabillei (Viette, 1974)
• Ophiusa mejanesi (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa melaconisia Hampson, 1905
• Ophiusa microtirhaca Sugi, 1990
• Ophiusa mimetica (Berio, 1954)
• Ophiusa nocturnia Hampson, 1902
• Ophiusa novenaria (Lucas, 1898)
• Ophiusa obsolescens (Hampson, 1918)
• Ophiusa olista Swinhoe, 1893
• Ophiusa overlaeti (Berio, 1956)
• Ophiusa parcemacula (Lucas, 1891)
• Ophiusa pelor (Mabille, 1881)
• Ophiusa pseudotirhaca (Berio, 1956)
• Ophiusa punctiquadrata (Berio, 1974)
• Ophiusa rectificata (Berio, 1941)
• Ophiusa recurvata (Hampson, 1913)
• Ophiusa reducta (Mabille, 1880)
• Ophiusa rogata (Berio, 1954)
• Ophiusa rufescens (Hampson, 1913)
• Ophiusa salita Distant, 1898
• Ophiusa samoensis (Tams, 1935)
• Ophiusa selenaris (Guenée, 1852)
• Ophiusa simplex Berio, 1978
• Ophiusa subdiversa (L. B. Prout, 1919)
• Ophiusa tettensis (Hopffer, 1858)
• Ophiusa tirhaca (Cramer, [1777])
• Ophiusa tirhacoides Holloway, 2005
• Ophiusa trapezium Guenée, 1852
• Ophiusa triphaenoides Walker, 1858
• Ophiusa tumidilinea Walker, 1858
• Ophiusa tumiditermina Hampson, 1910
• Ophiusa umbrilinea (Hampson, 1902)
• Ophiusa verecunda (Holland, 1894)
• Ophiusa violascens Hampson, 1902
• Ophiusa violisparsa (L. B. Prout, 1919)
• Ophiusa waterloti Viette, 1982
• Ophiusa xylochroa (Druce, 1912)

Ophiusa coronataFabricius, 1775 is now placed in Thyas as Thyas coronata .

References

1. Savela, Markku. "Ophiusa Ochsenheimer, 1816". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Archived from the original on July 20, 2019. Retrieved January 21, 2019.
2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
• Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Ophiusa Ochsenheimer". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 21, 2019.