Alphaea (moth)
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Alphaea Walker, 1855 |
| Type species | |
| Alphaea fulvohirta Walker, 1855
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Alphaea is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. They are found on India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Java only.
Description
Palpi short and hairy, which extending beyond the frons. Hind tibia with two pairs of spurs. Fore wings are rather long and narrow.[1]
Species
Subgenus Alphaea sensu stricto
- Alphaea anopunctata (Oberthür, 1896)
- Alphaea dellabrunai Saldaitis et Ivinskis, 2008
- Alphaea fulvohirta Walker, 1855
- Alphaea hongfena Fang, 1983
Subgenus Flavalphaea Dubatolov & Kishida, 2005
- Alphaea impleta (Walker, [1865])
- Alphaea khasiana (Rothschild, 1910)
Subgenus Nayaca Moore, 1879
- Alphaea chiyo Dubatolov et Kishida, 2005
- Alphaea florescens (Moore, 1879)
- Alphaea imbuta (Walker, 1855)
- Alphaea rothschildi Dubatolov et Kishida, 2005
- Alphaea turatii (Oberthür, 1911)
References
- ^ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.[permanent dead link]
- Dubatolov, V.V. & Kishida, Y., 2005: Review of the genus Alphaea Walker, 1855 (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Tinea 18 (4): 241-252, Tokyo.
- Fang, Ch., 1983: A new species of Alphaea from China (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 26 (2): 216-217, Beijing (in Chinese).
- Saldaitis, A., Ivinskis, P. & Witt, T., 2008: Alphaea dellabrunai sp. n. (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) from China. Acta Zoologica Lituanica 18 (3): 166-168, Vilnius.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
- Alphaea at funet
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