Dysodia
| Dysodia | |
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| Dysodia zellerii | |
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Thyrididae |
| Subfamily: | Thyridinae |
| Genus: | Dysodia Clemens, 1860 |
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Dysodia is a genus of moths of the Thyrididae family.
Description
Forewings long. Hindwings with apex acute, the outer margin straight. Palpi thickly scales, 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]
- Dysodia amania Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia antennata Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia binoculata Warren, 1901
- Dysodia brandbergensis Thiele, 2004
- Dysodia collinsi Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia constellata Warren, 1908
- Dysodia fenestratella Warren, 1900
- Dysodia flavidula Warren, 1908
- Dysodia fumida Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia hamata Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia incognita Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia intermedia (Walker, 1865)
- Dysodia lutescens Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia magnifica Whalley, 1968
- Dysodia meyi Thiele, 2004
- Dysodia namibiensis Thiele, 2004
- Dysodia parvita Whalley, 1971
- Dysodia subsignata Warren, 1908
- Dysodia vitrina (Boisduval, 1829)
- Dysodia zellerii (Dewitz, 1881)
References
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
- ↑ afromoths
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