Altha (moth)
| Altha | |
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| Altha lacteola | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia
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| Phylum: | Arthropoda
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| Class: | Insecta
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| Genus: | Altha Walker, 1862
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| Type species | |
| Altha nivea Walker, 1862 | |
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Altha is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae first described by Walker in 1862.
Description[]
Palpi short and slight. Mid and hind tibia lack spurs. Forewings with vein 7 from the cell or stalked with veins 8 and 9. Hindwing with vein 6 and 7 from the cell.[2]
Species[]
Some species of this genus are:[3]
- Altha adala Moore, 1859
- Tams, 1930 (from Sulawesi)
- Bethune-Baker, 1911 (from Angola and Nigeria)
- West, 1940 (from Congo and Tanzania)
- Hering 1931
- Hampson, 1892
- Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
- Altha lacteola (Swinhoe, 1890) (from Taiwan and Vietnam)
- Altha nivea Walker, 1862 (from India to Sundaland/Borneo)
- Solovyev & Witt, 2009 (from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam)
- Daniel 1865
- Swinhoe, 1904(from India)
- (from Indonesia)
- Swinhoe
- Hampson, 1910 (from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone)
- Altha subnotata Walker, 1865(from India, Sri Lanka)
References[]
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- Walker, 1862. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology 6: 173
- Encyclopedia of Life
- A.V. Solovyev & T.J. Witt, "The Limacodidae of Vietnam", Entomofauna, 2009, Suppl 16, page 53.
- ^ The Moths of Borneo
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Altha Walker, 1862". Afromoths. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
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