Altha (moth)
| Altha | |
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| Altha lacteola | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Limacodidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacodinae |
| Genus: | Altha Walker, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Altha nivea Walker, 1862 | |
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Altha is a genus of moths of the Limacodidae family.
Description
Palpi short and slight. Mid and hind tibia lack spurs. Fore wings with vein 7 from the cell or stalked with veins 8 and 9. Hind wing with vein 6 and 7 from the cell.[2]
Species
Some species of this genus are:[3]
- Altha adala Moore, 1859
- Altha alastor Tams, 1930 from Sulawesi)
- Altha ansorgei Bethune-Baker, 1911 (from Angola and Nigeria)
- Altha basalis West, 1940 (from Congo and Tanzania)
- Altha circumscripta Hering 1931
- Altha contaminata Hampson, 1892
- Altha lacides Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
- Altha lacteola (Swinhoe, 1890) (From Taiwan and Vietnam)
- Altha nivea Walker, 1862 (from India to Sundaland/Borneo)
- Altha nix Solovyev & Witt, 2009 (from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam)
- Altha nuristana Daniel 1865
- Altha peralbida Swinhoe, 1904 (from India)
- Altha pura (from Indonesia)
- Altha rufescens Swinhoe
- Altha rubrifusalis Hampson, 1910 (from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone)
- Altha subnotata Walker, 1865 (from India, Sri Lanka)
References
- Walker, 1862. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6 : 173
- Encyclopedia of Life
- A.V. Solovyev & T.J. Witt, "The Limacodidae of Vietnam", Entomofauna, 2009, Suppl 16, page 53.
- ↑ The moths of Borneo
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (15.Sept.2014)
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