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Abraxas (moth)

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Abraxas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Tribe: Abraxini
Genus: Abraxas
Leach, 1815
Synonyms
  • Spilote Hübner, [1806]
  • Spilota Hübner, 1818
  • Zerene Treitschke, 1825
  • Calospilos Hübner, [1825]
  • Callispilus Agassiz, 1847
  • Potera Moore, [1879]
  • Omophyseta Warren, 1894
  • Silabraxas Swinhoe, 1900
  • Chooreechillum Lucas, 1901
  • Dextridens Wehrli, 1934
  • Isostictia Wehrli, 1934
  • Diceratodesia Wehrli, 1935
  • Mesohypoleuca Wehrli, 1935
  • Rhabdotaedoeagus Wehrli, 1935
  • Spinuncus Wehrli, 1935
  • Trimeresia Wehrli, 1935

Abraxas, the magpie moths, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was first described by William Elford Leach in 1815.

Description

Palpi porrect and roughly scaled. Hind tibia of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7, 8, 9 and 10, 11 stalked. Vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12, or apparently absent. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell.[1]

Species

The genus includes the following species:

References

  1. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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