Negeta

Negeta
	Negeta contrariata
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Nolidae
Subfamily:	Chloephorinae
Genus:	Negeta; Walker, 1862
Synonyms
	Doranaga;

Negeta is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae first described by Francis Walker in 1862.

Description

Palpi reaching just above vertex of head and very slender. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with dorsal tuft at base. Tibia not hairy. Forewings short and broad, with arched costa and inner margin. Outer margin angled. Veins 8,9,10 stalked. Hindwings with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.^[1]

Species

Negeta abbreviata (Walker, 1862)
Negeta albigrisea (Hampson, 1910)
Negeta albiplagiata Hampson, 1918
Negeta approximans Hampson, 1912
Negeta argentula Viete, 1976
Negeta aureata Holloway, 2003
Negeta cinerascens (Holland, 1894)
Negeta contrariata Walker, 1862
Negeta cyrtogramma Prout, 1927
Negeta ecclipsis (Holland, 1894)
Negeta incisurata Gaede, 1916
Negeta luminosa (Walker, 1858)
Negeta mesoleuca (Holland, 1894)
Negeta molybdota Hampson, 1912
Negeta montanata Holloway, 2003
Negeta noloides Draudt, 1950
Negeta nubilicosta (Holland, 1894)
Negeta ochreoplaga (Bethune-Baker, 1909)
Negeta ochrichalceaarcuata Gaede, 1916
Negeta olivaria (Warren, 1916)
Negeta phaeopepla (Hampson, 1905)
Negeta purpurascens Hampson, 1912
Negeta reticulata (Berio, 1964)
Negeta ruficeps (Hampson, 1902)
Negeta secretaria Bryk, 1913
Negeta semialba Hampson, 1918
Negeta soliera (Swinhoe, 1895)
Negeta stalactitis (Hampson, 1905)
Negeta straminea (Hampson, 1891)
Negeta ulula Bryk, 1913

References

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

Savela, Markku. "Negeta Walker, 1862". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Negeta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 11, 2018.

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[1] 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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