Dichromia
Dichromia | |
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Dichromia legrosi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia
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Phylum: | Arthropoda
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Class: | Insecta
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Genus: | Dichromia |
Type species | |
Phalaena orosia Cramer, 1780[1] | |
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Dichromia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1854.[2]
Description[]
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[]
Some species of this genus are:
- (Aurivillius, 1925)
- (Mabille, 1900)
- Butler, 1878
- Holloway, 2008
- (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Viette, 1956
- Butler, 1878
- Dichromia cognata (Moore, 1885)
- (Walker, 1866)
- (Prout, 1921)
- (Holland, 1894)
- Warren, 1913
- Dichromia indicatalis Walker, 1859
- Viette, 1956
- Dichromia legrosi (Guillermet, 1992)
- (Strand, 1915)
- (Hampson, 1902)
- (Strand, 1909)
- (Mabille, 1884)
- Dichromia occatus (Moore, 1882)
- (Christoph, 1877)
- Dichromia orosia Meyrick, 1913
- Swinhoe, 1901
- Dichromia pullata Moore, 1885
- Walker, 1859
- Dichromia quinqualis Walker, 1859
- Viette, 1956
- Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775)
- (Prout, 1921)
- Viette, 1956
- Dichromia thermesialis (Walker, 1866)
- (Prout, 1927)
- (Moore, 1882)
- Guenée, 1854
- Walker, 1859
- 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.
Categories:
- Hypeninae
- Noctuoidea genera
- Hypeninae stubs