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Plusiodonta

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Plusiodonta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Calpini
Genus: Plusiodonta
Guenée, 1852

Plusiodonta is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family.

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint rounghly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Fore wings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.[1]

Species

References

  1. ^ 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]