Rivula

Rivula
Rivula sericealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Phylum:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Subfamily:Rivulinae
Genus:Rivula
Guenée in Duponchel, [1845] [1]
Synonyms[2][3]
  • Motina Walker, 1863
  • Cholimma Walker, 1863
  • Pasira Moore, 1882
  • Paurosceles Turner, 1945
  • Rhazunda Walker, 1866
  • Rivulana Bethune-Baker, 1911

Rivula is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae described by Achille Guenée in 1845.

Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward), the second joint thickly scaled, and third joint minute. A sharp front tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. The typical section has the tibia of the male nearly naked. Forewings with nearly rectangular apex. Veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings with stalked veins 3 and 4.[4]

Selected species

  • Rivula aenictopis Turner, 1908
  • Rivula albovenata Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula arizanensis Wileman & South, 1916
  • Rivula basalis Hampson, 1891
  • Rivula biagi Bethune-Baker, 1908
  • Rivula bicolorana Legrand, 1966
  • Rivula catadela D. S. Fletcher, 1961
  • Rivula cognata Hampson, 1912
  • Rivula concinna Lucas, 1895
  • Rivula continentalis Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula craspisticta Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula curvata Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula curvifera Walker, 1862
  • Rivula cyclina (Mabille, 1900)
  • Rivula dimorpha Fryer, 1912
  • Rivula dispar de Joannis, 1915
  • Rivula endotricha Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula erebina Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula ethiopina Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula everta Swinhoe, 1901
  • Rivula invertita (Berio, 1956)
  • Rivula leucanioides (Walker, 1863)
  • Rivula lophosoma Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula modesta Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula niphodesma Meyrick, 1891
  • Rivula niveipuncta Swinhoe, 1905
  • Rivula ochraceoides Poole, 1989
  • Rivula ochrea (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Rivula parallella (Hampson, 1902)
  • Rivula propinqualis Guenée, 1854 – spotted grass moth
  • Rivula pusilla Möschler, 1890
  • Rivula sericealis Scopoli, 1763 – straw dot moth
  • Rivula sororcula (Saalmüller, 1891)
  • Rivula stepheni Sullivan, 2009
  • Rivula tanitalis Rebel, 1912
  • Rivula vicarialis Walker, 1866

References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Rivula". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  2. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Motina". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  3. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Rivula Guenée, 1845". Afromoths. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  4. ↑ 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.
  • Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
  • Rebel (1912). Iris 26: 70, fig. 3.
  • Savela, Markku. "Rivula Guenée in Duponchel, [1845]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 24, 2018.
  • Scopoli (1763). Entomologia Carniolica.
  • Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 12. Retrieved 14 November 2012.


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