Detoulgoetia

Detoulgoetia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Subtribe:Spilosomina
Genus:Detoulgoetia
Dubatolov, 2006
Type species
Spilosoma aspersa
Mabille, 1878

Detoulgoetia is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths are found in Madagascar and Comores. Goodger & Watson (1995) note that the species of this genus have white or yellowish wings speckled with brown dots without order and with dark discal spots.[1]

Species

  • Detoulgoetia aspersa (Mabille, 1879) (now considered as a synonym of D. virginalis)
  • Detoulgoetia comorensis Rothschild, 1933
  • Detoulgoetia pseudosparsata Rothschild, 1933
  • Detoulgoetia virginalis (Butler, 1878)
    • Detoulgoetia virginalis comorensis (Rothschild, 1933)
    • Detoulgoetia virginalis pseudosparsata (Rothschild, 1933)
    • Detoulgoetia virginalis pupieri (de Toulgoët, 1991)

References

  1. ↑ Dubatolov, V.V., 2006: New genera and species of Arctiinae from the Afrotropical fauna (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Nachrichten des entomologische Vereins Apollo 27 (3): 139-152. (on page 145)
  • De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Detoulgoetia Dubatolov, 2006". Afromoths. Retrieved November 12, 2017.
  • Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog


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