Biology:Gyrtona
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Short description: Genus of moths
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| Genus: | Gyrtona Walker, 1863[1]
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Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.
Description
Similar to Stictoptera, differs in porrect palpi and more hairy. A large frontal tuft present. Antennae with long cilia in male and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with slightly raised tufts at middle and end of cell.[3]
Species
- Gyrtona albicans (Pagenstecher 1900)
- Gyrtona erebenna (Mabille, 1900)
- Gyrtona eusema (Prout, 1926)
- Gyrtona ferrimissalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona inclusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona hylusalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona lapidarioides Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona malgassica Kenrick, 1917
- Gyrtona niveivitta Swinhoe, 1905
- Gyrtona obliqualis Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona oxyptera Hampson, 1912
- Gyrtona perlignealis (Walker, 1863)
- Gyrtona polionota Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona polymorpha Hampson, 1905
- Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
- Gyrtona pseudoquadratifera Holloway, ??
- Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
- Gyrtona pyraloides (Walker, 1864)
- Gyrtona semicarbonalis Walker, 1863
References
- ↑ Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Gyrtona". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=274062.
- ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up.
- The Moths of Borneo
- De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2018). "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/841020. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
- Savela, Markku. "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/noctuidae/stictopterinae/gyrtona/. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
External links
- Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. pp. 89–90. https://archive.org/details/listspecimensle08graygoog. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
Wikidata ☰ Q13621091 entry
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