Miresa
| Miresa | |
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| Miresa bracteata | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Limacodidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacodinae |
| Genus: | Miresa Walker, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Nyssia albipuncta Herrich-Schäffer, 1854[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Miresa is a genus of moths in the family Limacodidae that was first described by Francis Walker in 1855.[2]
Description
[edit]Palpi not reaching beyond frontal tuft. Antennae of male with serrated distal half, mid and hind tibia with terminal pairs of spurs. Forewings with veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings with veins 6 and 7 on a short stalk or from cell.[3]
Species
[edit]- Miresa albipuncta Herrich-Schäffer, 1854 - India, Sri Lanka
- Miresa argentifera Walker - Sri Lanka
- Miresa basirufa Hering, 1941 - Congo
- Miresa bilineata Hering, 1928
- Miresa bracteata Butler, 1880 - India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand
- Miresa burmensis Hering - China, Laos, Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Miresa clarissa (Stoll, 1790) - Costa Rica, French Guiana
- Miresa demangei de Joannis - Bhutan, China, Myanmar, Vietnam
- Miresa exigua - China, Myanmar
- Miresa fangae Wu & Solovyev, 2011 - China
- Miresa fulgida Wileman - China, Taiwan, Vietnam
- Miresa gilba Karsch, 1899 - Ghana
- Miresa gliricidiae Hering, 1933 - Sierra Leone
- Miresa habenichti Wichgraf, 1913 - Mozambique
- Miresa kwangtungensis Hering, 1931 - China, Laos, Vietnam
- Miresa livida West, 1940 - Congo
- Miresa polargenta Wu & Solovyev, 2011 - Vietnam
- Miresa rorida - Laos, Thailand
- Miresa sagitovae - Myanmar, Thailand, Vietnam
- Miresa semicalida Hampson, 1910 - Congo, Zambia
- Miresa sibinoides Hering, 1931
- Miresa strigivena Hampson, 190 - Nigeria
- Miresa urga Hering, 1933 - China
References
[edit]- ↑ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Miresa Walker, 1855". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ↑ The Moths of Borneo
- ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Miresa Walker, 1855". Afromoths. Retrieved October 4, 2017. - with images
External links
[edit]- "Taxonomy Browser: Miresa". Barcode of Life Data System. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
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