Dichromia
Appearance
Dichromia | |
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Dichromia legrosi | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Hypeninae |
Genus: | Dichromia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854 |
Type species | |
Phalaena orosia Cramer, 1780[1] | |
Synonyms | |
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Dichromia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1854.[2]
Description
[edit]Palpi roughly scaled, where the second joint long and porrect (extending forward). Third joint obliquely upturned and ending in a naked point. A sharp frontal tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated in the male. Forewings with the depressed and slightly acute apex. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) to form the areole. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell. Vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars and veins 6 and 7 from upper angle.[3]
Species
[edit]Some species of this genus are:
- Dichromia aculeifera (Aurivillius, 1925)
- Dichromia albistriga (Mabille, 1900)
- Dichromia amica Butler, 1878
- Dichromia ampullata Holloway, 2008
- Dichromia aroa (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Dichromia carninalis Viette, 1956
- Dichromia claripennis Butler, 1878
- Dichromia cognata (Moore, 1885)
- Dichromia erastrialis (Walker, 1866)
- Dichromia euthygramma (Prout, 1921)
- Dichromia fascifera (Holland, 1894)
- Dichromia frustalis Warren, 1913
- Dichromia indicatalis Walker, 1859
- Dichromia isoplocalis Viette, 1956
- Dichromia legrosi (Guillermet, 1992)
- Dichromia limbopunctata (Strand, 1915)
- Dichromia mesomelaena (Hampson, 1902)
- Dichromia mutilata (Strand, 1909)
- Dichromia nasuta (Mabille, 1884)
- Dichromia occatus (Moore, 1882)
- Dichromia opulenta (Christoph, 1877)
- Dichromia orosia Meyrick, 1913
- Dichromia otiata Swinhoe, 1901
- Dichromia pullata Moore, 1885
- Dichromia quadralis Walker, 1859
- Dichromia quinqualis Walker, 1859
- Dichromia rationalis Viette, 1956
- Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775)
- Dichromia semlikiensis (Prout, 1921)
- Dichromia sieglinde Viette, 1956
- Dichromia thermesialis (Walker, 1866)
- Dichromia thomensis (Prout, 1927)
- Dichromia triangularis (Moore, 1882)
- Dichromia trigonalis Guenée, 1854
- Dichromia triplicalis Walker, 1859
- Dichromia xanthaspisalis Viette, 1956
References
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- ^ Lödl, (1993). "Notes on the synonymy of the genera Hypena Schrank, 1802, Dichromia, Guenée, 1854 and Harita Moore, 1882 (Lep. Noctuidae: Hypeninae)". Zeitschreift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen. 45 (1/2).
- ^ Savela, Markku (July 31, 2019). "Dichromia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Lödl (2001). "Morphometry and relation patterns in male genitalia of noctuids (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae)". Quadrifina. Bd. 4: 5-33.