Bocula

Bocula
Bocula marginata in Sabah, Borneo
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Subfamily:Rivulinae
Genus:Bocula
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Aramuna Moore, 1884
  • Borsippa Walker, 1858
  • Eudragana Butler, 1880
  • Lacibisa Walker, 1863
  • Sillophora Warren, 1912
  • Trichoptya Warren, 1912

Bocula is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Description

Its palpi are slender and reaching vertex of head, where the third joint is minute. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia fringed with hair. Forewings with rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 from lower angle of cell.[1]

Species

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths volume II". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
  • Savela, Markku. "Bocula Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  • Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Bocula Guenée, 1852 , in Boisduval & Guenée". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved March 26, 2018.
  • Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Bocula". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 19, 2018.
  • Description of Bocula genus


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