Lactura

Lactura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lacturidae
Genus:	Lactura Walker, 1854
Synonyms
Eustixis Hübner, [1827-1831] Dianasa Walker, 1854 Mieza Walker, 1854 Sarbena Walker, [1865] (preocc. Sarbena Walker, 1862) Themiscyra Walker, [1865] Cyptasia Walker, 1866 Buxeta Walker, 1866 (replacement name for Sarbena) Enaemia Zeller, 1872 Pseudotalara Druce, 1885 Pseudocaprima Walsingham, 1900 Epidictica Turner, 1903 Hedycharis Turner, 1903 Eriopyrrha Meyrick, 1913

Lactura

Lactura is a genus of moths in the family Lacturidae.

Selected species

• Lactura aglaodora (Turner, 1942)
• Lactura calliphylla (Turner, 1903)
• Lactura caminaea (Meyrick, 1887)
• Lactura cristata (Butler, 1886)
• Lactura dives (Walker, 1854)
• Lactura erythocera (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Lactura erythractis (Meyrick, 1887)
• Lactura haplochroa (Turner, 1932)
• Lactura laetifera (Walker, 1865)
• Lactura leucophthalma (Meyrick, 1907)
• Lactura mactata (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875)
• Lactura panopsia (Turner, 1926)
• Lactura parallela (Meyrick, 1889)
• Lactura phoenobapta (Turner, 1903)
• Lactura pilcheri (T.P. Lucas, 1891)
• Lactura pteropoecila (Turner, 1913)
• Lactura pyrilampis (Meyrick, 1886)
• Lactura pyronympha Meyrick, 1923
• Lactura rhodomochla (Turner, 1942)
• Lactura rubritexta (Meyrick, 1913)
• Lactura sapotearum (Swainson, 1851)
• Lactura thiospila (Turner, 1903)

References

• Heppner, J.B., 1995: Lacturidae, new family (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). Tropical Lepidoptera Research 6 (2): 146-148. Full article: [1].