Gyrtona
| Gyrtona | |
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| Gyrtona albicans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Euteliidae |
| Genus: | Gyrtona Walker, 1863[1] |
| Type species | |
| Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863[2] | |
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Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.
Description
[edit]Similar to Stictoptera, differs in porrect palpi and more hairy. A large frontal tuft present. Antennae with long cilia in male and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with slightly raised tufts at middle and end of cell.[3]
Species
[edit]- Gyrtona albicans (Pagenstecher 1900)
- Gyrtona erebenna (Mabille, 1900)
- Gyrtona eusema (Prout, 1926)
- Gyrtona ferrimissalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona inclusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona hylusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona lapidarioides Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona malgassica Kenrick, 1917
- Gyrtona niveivitta Swinhoe, 1905
- Gyrtona obliqualis Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona oxyptera Hampson, 1912
- Gyrtona perlignealis (Walker, 1863)
- Gyrtona polionota Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona polymorpha Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona pseudoquadratifera Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
- Gyrtona pyraloides (Walker, 1864)
- Gyrtona semicarbonalis Walker, 1863
References
[edit]- ↑ Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Gyrtona". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
- ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- The Moths of Borneo
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Afromoths. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
- Savela, Markku. "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
External links
[edit]- Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
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