Stictoptera

Stictoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Stictopterinae
Genus: Stictoptera
Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Dandaca Walker, 1858[1]
  • Minica Walker, 1858
  • Steiria Walker, 1858

Stictoptera is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Description

Palpi slender and nearly naked, where the second joint reaching vertex of head and third joint long. Antennae very long and slender. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with dorsal tufts on proximal segments. Tibia slightly hairy. Fore wings rather long and narrow with crenulate cilia. A small tuft of scales on the reniform can be seen. Frenulum of male very strong which is single in female.[2]

Species

  • Stictoptera aequisecta Turner, 1933
  • Stictoptera anaemia Hampson, 1905
  • Stictoptera antemarginata Saalmüller, 1880
  • Stictoptera columba (Walker, 1856) (Himalaya, Thailand, Sundaland)
  • Stictoptera confluens (Walker, 1858)
  • Stictoptera conturbata (Walker, 1869)
  • Stictoptera cucullioides Guenée, 1852
  • Stictoptera esmeralda Holloway, 1976 (Borneo, Sumatra)
  • Stictoptera ferrifera (Walker, 1864)
  • Stictoptera gabri (Berio, 1970)
  • Stictoptera grisea Moore, 1867 (Himalaya, Sundaland, Philippines)
  • Stictoptera griveaudi Laporte, 1970
  • Stictoptera hironsi Barnett, Emms & Holloway, 1998
  • Stictoptera macromma Snellen, 1880 (Indo-Australian tropics)
  • Stictoptera melanistis Hampson, 1912
  • Stictoptera pammeces Turner, 1920
  • Stictoptera pectinata Kenrick, 1917
  • Stictoptera poecilosoma Saalmüller, 1880
  • Stictoptera rhabdota Prout A. E., 1927
  • Stictoptera semialba (Walker, 1864) Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo)
  • Stictoptera signifera (Walker, 1857)
  • Stictoptera terribilis Holloway, 1976 (from Borneo)
  • Stictoptera trajiciens Walker, 1857
  • Stictoptera tridentifera Holloway 1979

References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2016. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (acc.02-02-2017)
  2. ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.


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