Dysphania (moth)
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| D. militaris | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Geometrinae |
| Genus: | Dysphania Hübner, [1819] |
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Dysphania is a genus of colourful moths in the family Geometridae and typical of the tribe Dysphaniini; they are sometimes called 'false tiger moths' and are found in northeast Australia, Melanesia, and south, east and southeast Asia.
Description
Most Dysphania are day flying, but there are also nocturnal species. With a typical wingspan of 50–85 millimetres (2.0–3.3 in), they are relatively large compared to many other members of this family.
Species
Species include (incomplete list):
- Dysphania ares (Weymer, 1885)
- Dysphania bivexillata Prout, 1912
- Dysphania cyane (Cramer, [1780])
- Dysphania discalis (Walker, 1854)
- Dysphania electra Weymer, 1885
- Dysphania flavidiscalis Warren, 1895
- Dysphania glaucescens (Walker, 1861)
- Dysphania malayanus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - Thailand, western Malesia to Palawan
- Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758) - India, southern China, Indochina, Malesia
- Dysphania numana (Cramer, [1779]) - type species as Phalaena numana - northern Australia, Kiriwina island
Dysphania numana - Dysphania palmyra Stoll, 1790 - Sri Lanka
- Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891) - western India
- Dysphania poeyii (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
- Dysphania prunicolor Moore, 1879 - India and Sri Lanka
- Dysphania sagana (Druce, 1882) - Indochina, Sumatra
- Dysphania snelleni (Pagenstecher, 1886)
- Dysphania subrepleta (Walker, 1854) - Indochina, western Malesia including Borneo
- Dysphania transducta (Walker, 1861)
References
- Dysphania at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External Links
Media related to Dysphania (Geometridae) at Wikimedia Commons
