Elusa (moth)

Elusa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Elusa; Walker, [1859]
Synonyms
	Alimala Walker, 1862; Seria Walker, 1862; Penza Walker, [1863]; Lugana Moore, 1882; Desana Swinhoe, 1900;

Elusa is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Francis Walker in 1859.

Description

Its eyes are naked and without lashes. The proboscis is well developed. Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head and roughly scaled. Third joint is short. Antennae of male bipectinated, where branches bent round and almost forming a cylinder just before the middle, where the shaft is contorted and the branches form a large hollow cup, after which they gradually diminish to apex. Thorax tuftless. Abdomen with dorsal tufts. Legs with dense hairy tibia. Hindlegs are clothed with very long hair to the end of tarsi. Forewings with non-crenulate cilia, where the inner margin lobed at base. There are long scaly tufts at outer angle.[1]

Species

Elusa affinis Rothschild, 1915
Elusa alector Wileman & West, 1928
Elusa antennata (Moore, 1882)
Elusa binocula Hampson, 1911
Elusa ceneusalis Walker, [1859]
Elusa confusa Warren, 1913
Elusa cyathicornis (Walker, 1862)
Elusa diloba Hampson, 1909
Elusa dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1906
Elusa duplicata Warren, 1913
Elusa flammans Warren, 1913
Elusa ignea Warren, 1913
Elusa incertans Bethune-Baker, 1906
Elusa inventa Berio, 1977
Elusa mediorufa Hampson, 1909
Elusa oenolopha Turner, 1902
Elusa orion Roepke, 1956
Elusa penanorum Holloway, 1989
Elusa peninsulata (Walker, 1865)
Elusa pratti Bethune-Baker, 1906
Elusa puncticeps (Walker, 1863)
Elusa purpurea Warren, 1913
Elusa pyrrhobaphes (Turner, 1943)
Elusa semipecten Swinhoe, 1901
Elusa simplex Warren, 1913
Elusa subjecta (Walker, 1865)
Elusa temburong Holloway, 1989
Elusa ustula Hampson, 1909

References

Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Savela, Markku. "Elusa Walker, [1859]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 14, 2019.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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[1] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.