Pseudoradiarctia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Pseudoradiarctia Haynes, 2011 |
Type species | |
Diacrisia rhodesiana Hampson, 1900 |
Pseudoradiarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from Afrotropics.
Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.
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.
Binna is a monotypic genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. It includes one species, Binna pencillata, from West Africa and Kenya.
Carcinarctia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1901 and they are found in the Afrotropics.
Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.
Eyralpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.
Leucaloa is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.
Nannoarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Nobutoyo Kôda in 1988.
Paralpenus is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae from the Afrotropics. The genus was described by Watson in 1988.
Teracotona is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Ancylolomia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.
Caffrocrambus is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Calamotropha is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Plecopterodes is an Afrotropical genus of moths of the family Erebidae.
Udeoides is a genus of snout moths of the subfamily Spilomelinae in the family Crambidae. The genus was described by Koen Maes in 2006 and distinguished from the related genus Udea. All six species are distributed in the Afrotropical realm.
Pericaliella is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae that is known from the Afrotropics. It includes one species Pericaliella melanodisca from Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda and Rwanda.
Radiarctia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from Afrotropics.
Amerila luteibarba is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo and Uganda.
Afrasura is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae from the Afrotropics.
The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Metarbelidae was first described by Embrik Strand in 1909.
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