Thumatha
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Euarthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subtribe: | Nudariina |
| Genus: | Thumatha Walker, 1866 |
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Thumatha is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are distributed in Oriental and Australian regions.
Description
Palpi porrect and slender. Antennae bipectinated in male. Tibia with long spurs. Fore wings are broad and short. Veins 3 to 5 arise closer to end of cell, and vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 7 to 9 stalked and vein 11 anastomosing with vein 12. In hind wings, veins 3 and 4 stalked, vein 5 from angle of cell, veins 6 and 7 stalked, and vein 8 from beyond the middle of cell.[1]
Species
- Thumatha brunnea Kühne, 2007
- Thumatha fuscescens Walker, 1866
- Thumatha fuscescens africana - Kühne, 2007
- Thumatha fuscescens fuscescens
- Thumatha kakamegae Kühne, 2007
- Thumatha inconstans (Butler, [1897])
- Thumatha infantula (Saalmüller, 1880)
- Thumatha lunaris Durante, 2007
- Thumatha monochroa Zolotuhin, 1996
- Thumatha muscula (Staudinger, 1887)
- Thumatha ochracea (Bremer, 1861)
- Thumatha orientalis Holloway, 2001
- Thumatha punctata Kühne, 2010
- Thumatha senex (Hübner, [1808])
References
- ↑ 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.
- Kühne, L. (2007). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 3: 353-394.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
- Thalassia Salentina 30: 81-92.
- Thumatha genus at funet.fi
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