Plusiodonta

Plusiodonta
	Plusiodonta excavata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Calpini
Genus:	Plusiodonta; Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
	Gadera Walker, [1858]; Deva Walker, [1858]; Odontina Guenée, 1862; Tafalla Walker, 1869; Tinnodoa Nye, 1975;

Plusiodonta is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.^[4]

Species

Plusiodonta aborta Dognin, 1910
Plusiodonta achalcea Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta amado Barnes, 1907 (syn: Plusiodonta suffusa Hill, 1924)
Plusiodonta arctipennis Butler, 1886
Plusiodonta auripicta Moore, 1882
Plusiodonta basirhabdota Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta casta Butler, 1878
Plusiodonta chalcomera Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta clavifera Walker, 1868
Plusiodonta cobaltina Viette, 1956
Plusiodonta coelonota Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844
Plusiodonta commoda Walker, 1865
Plusiodonta compressipalpis Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 – moonseed moth
Plusiodonta cupristria Kaye, 1922
Plusiodonta dimorpha Robinson, 1975
Plusiodonta effulgens Edwards, 1884
Plusiodonta euchalcia Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta excavata Guenée, 1862
Plusiodonta gueneei Viette, 1968
Plusiodonta incitans Walker, 1857
Plusiodonta ionochrota Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta macra Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta malagasy Viette, 1968
Plusiodonta megista Hampson, 1926
Plusiodonta miranda Schaus, 1911
Plusiodonta multicolora Bethune-Baker, 1906
Plusiodonta natalensis Walker, 1865
Plusiodonta nictites Hampson, 1902
Plusiodonta nitissima Schaus, 1911
Plusiodonta repellens Walker, 1857
Plusiodonta speciosissima Holland, 1894
Plusiodonta stimulans Walker, 1857
Plusiodonta theresae Holloway, 1979
Plusiodonta thomae Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852
Plusiodonta tripuncta Bethune-Baker, 1906
Plusiodonta wahlbergi Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

References

^ Savela, Markku (July 5, 2019). "Plusiodonta Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Plusiodonta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Delocoma Swinhoe, 1905". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved June 9, 2020.
^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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[1] Savela, Markku (July 5, 2019). "Plusiodonta Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

[2] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Plusiodonta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

[3] Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Delocoma Swinhoe, 1905". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved June 9, 2020.

[4] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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