Dysodia

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Dysodia
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Dysodia zellerii
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Family:
Subfamily:
Genus:
Dysodia

Clemens, 1860
Synonyms
  • Pachythyris Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875
  • Platythyris Grote & Robinson, 1866
  • Varnia Walker, 1863

Dysodia is a genus of moths of the family Thyrididae. It was described by James Brackenridge Clemens in 1860.

Description[]

Forewings long. Hindwings with apex acute, the outer margin straight. Palpi thickly scaled, upturned, reaching above vertex of head, the third joint acute. Antennae simple in both sexes. Legs are with hairy femur and tibia. Forewings excurved at veins 2, 3 and 4. Veins 7, 8 and 9 from close to the angle of cell. Hindwings with vein 5 from lower angle of cell. The outer margin is irregular and excised below the apex. Thorax and abdomen is stout.[1]

Species[]

Some species of this genus are:[2]

  • Whalley, 1968
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Warren, 1901
  • Thiele, 2004
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Warren, 1908
  • Warren, 1900
  • Warren, 1908
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Dysodia ignita (Walker, 1865)
  • Whalley, 1968
  • (Walker, 1865)
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Whalley, 1968
  • Thiele, 2004
  • Thiele, 2004
  • Whalley, 1971
  • Warren, 1908
  • (Boisduval, 1829)
  • Dysodia zellerii (Dewitz, 1881)

References[]

  1. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  2. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Dysodia Clemens, 1860". Afromoths. Retrieved November 18, 2018.


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