Digama
| Digama | |
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| Digama marmorea | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Aganainae |
| Genus: | Digama Moore, 1858 |
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Digama is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae described by Frederic Moore in 1858. It is distributed in South Africa, China, throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Australia.
Taxonomy
[edit]The genus was formerly placed in the Arctiidae and the Noctuidae by different authors.
Description
[edit]Palpi upturned with second joint reaching vertex of head and long third joint. Forewings square and rather short. Vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell. Vein 6 from just below the upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a short areole. Hindwings with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 are stalked.[1]
Species
[edit]- Digama abietis Leech, 1889
- Digama africana Swinhoe, 1907
- Digama aganais Felder, 1874
- Digama budonga Bethume-Baker, 1913
- Digama burmana Hampson, 1892
- Digama costimacula Swinhoe, 1907
- Digama culta Hübner, 1825
- Digama daressalamica Strand, 1911
- Digama fasciata Butler, 1877
- Digama hearseyana Moore, 1859
- Digama insulana Felder, 1868
- Digama lithosioides Swinhoe, 1907
- Digama malgassica Toulgoët, 1954
- Digama marchalii Guerin, 1843
- Digama marmorea Butler, 1877
- Digama meridionalis Swinhoe, 1907
- Digama ostentata Distant, 1899
- Digama pandaensis Romieux, 1935
- Digama plicata Pinhey, 1952
- Digama rileyi Kiriakoff, 1958
- Digama sagittata Gaede, 1926
- Digama septempuncta Hampson, 1910
- Digama serratula Talbot, 1932
- Digama sinuosa Hampson, 1905
- Digama spilosoma Felder, 1874
- Digama spilosomoides Walker, 1865
- Digama strabonis Hampson, 1910
References
[edit]- ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Digama at the Natural History Museum Butterflies and Moths of the World project
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