Paectes
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Genus: | Paectes Hübner, 1818
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Paectes is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
Description
Palpi upturned, reaching just above vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with tufts on first segment and very long, with a large anal tubular tuft especially in male. Fore wing with nearly straight costa, rectangular apex, obliquely curved outer margin and near base lobed inner margin. in most species, antennae of male bipectinated and tibia hairy. And in some, antennae of male pectinated for two-thirds of length and fore tibia with a tuft of long hair from femur-tibia joint.[1]
Species
- Paectes abrostolella Walker, 1866
- Paectes abrostoloides Guenée, 1852
- Paectes acutangula Hampson, 1912
- Paectes arcigera Guenée, 1852
- Paectes asper Pogue, 2013
- Paectes costistrigata Bethune-Baker, 1906
- Paectes cyanodes Turner, 1902
- Paectes declinata Grote, 1879
- Paectes delineata Guenée, 1852
- Paectes fuscescens Walker, 1855
- Paectes longiformis Pogue, 2012
- Paectes lunodes (Guenée, 1852)
- Paectes medialba Pogue, 2013
- Paectes nubifera Hampson, 1912
- Paectes obrotunda Guenée, 1852
- Paectes oculatrix Guenée, 1852
- Paectes pygmaea Hübner, 1818 (syn: Paectes flabella (Grote, 1879))
- Paectes silvaini Barbut & Lalanne-Cassou, 2005
- Paectes similis Pogue, 2013
- Paectes sinuosa Pogue, 2013
- Paectes tumida Pogue, 2013
References
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- ^ 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.
- Barbut, J. & Lalanne-Cassou, B., 2005: Description de trois Euteliinae néotropicaux appartenant aux genres Eutelia et Paectes et nouvelles synonymies (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France, 110 (1): 97-102.
- Pogue, M.G., 2013: A review of the Paectes arcigera species complex (Guenée) (Lepidoptera, Euteliidae). Zookeys 264: 126-163. Abstract and full article: [1].