Biology:Dinumma

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Dinumma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858.[1][2][3]

Description

Palpi smoothly scaled and upturned. Second joint reaching just above vertex of head, and third joint moderate length. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with a series of dorsal tufts. Tibia moderately hair. Forewings of nearly even width throughout, the apex and outer margin rounded. Hindwings with vein 5 from lower angle of cell.[4]

Species

  • Dinumma deponens Walker, 1858 India, Thailand, China, Japan, Korea, introduced to the United States[5]
  • Dinumma combusta (Walker, 1865) Sundaland
  • Dinumma hades Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
  • Dinumma inagnulata Hampson, 1902 Sikkim
  • Dinumma mediobrunnea Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
  • Dinumma oxygrapha (Snellen, 1880) Singapore, Borneo, Bali, Dammer, Kei, Philippines, Sulawesi
  • Dinumma placens Walker, 1858 Sri Lanka
  • Dinumma rubiginea (Bethune-Baker, 1908) New Guinea
  • Dinumma spiculata Holloway, 2005 Borneo
  • Dinumma stygia Hampson, 1926 New Guinea
  • Dinumma varians Butler, 1889 India (Himachal Pradesh)

References

  1. Savela, Markku (August 18, 2019). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/scoliopteryginae/dinumma/. Retrieved June 22, 2020. 
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Dinumma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=283773. 
  3. Pitkin, Brian; Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". Natural History Museum, London. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=8640.0. Retrieved June 22, 2020. 
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up. 
  5. Adams, J.K., P. Van Zandt, T. Neal, 2013. Dinumma deponens, Walker 1858 (Erebidae) is here to stay. News of the Lepidopterists' Society, 55(4): 176-177.

Wikidata ☰ Q5278760 entry