Biology:Eupterote

Short description: Genus of moths

Eupterote
Eupterote asclepiades
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Tribe:	Eupterotini
Genus:	Eupterote Hübner, 1820
Type species
Phalaena fabia Cramer, 1780
Synonyms
Messata Walker, 1855 Tagora Walker, 1855 Murlida Moore, [1860]; in Horsfield & Moore Brachytera Felder, 1874 Sphingognatha Felder, 1874 Leptojana Butler, 1881 Pachyjana Butler, 1881 Horanpella Moore, 1883 Sangatissa Moore, 1883 Spalyria Moore, 1884 Mallarctus Mell, 1930 Drepanojana Bryk, 1944 Heringijana Bryk, 1944 Sarmalia Walker, 1866

Eupterote is a genus of moths in the family Eupterotidae. It was first described by Jacob Hübner in 1820.

Species

• Eupterote acesta Swinhoe, 1894
• Eupterote alba (Swinhoe, 1892)
• Eupterote amaena Walker, 1855
• Eupterote asclepiades (Felder, 1874)
• Eupterote balwanti Bhasin., 1946
• Eupterote calandra Swinhoe, 1894
• Eupterote celebica Nässig, Holloway & Beeke, 2011
• Eupterote chinensis Leech, 1898
• Eupterote citheronia Bryk, 1944
• Eupterote citrina Walker, 1855
• Eupterote crinita Swinhoe, 1899
• Eupterote decolorata (Grünberg, 1914)
• Eupterote diffusa Walker, 1865
• Eupterote dulcinea Swinhoe, 1901
• Eupterote epicharis West, 1932
• Eupterote fabia (Cramer, 1780)
• Eupterote flavicollis Guérin-Méneville, 1843
• Eupterote flavida Moore, 1884
• Eupterote formosana Matsumura, 1908
• Eupterote gardneri Bryk, 1950
• Eupterote geminata (Walker, 1855)
• Eupterote glaucescens (Walker, 1855)
• Eupterote harmani Holloway, 1987
• Eupterote hibisci Fabricius, 1775
• Eupterote kageri Nässig, 1989
• Eupterote kalliesi Nässig, 2000
• Eupterote lineosa Walker, 1855
• Eupterote liquidambaris Mell, 1930
• Eupterote minor Moore, 1893
• Eupterote mollifera Walker, 1865
• Eupterote multiarcuata Holloway, 1976
• Eupterote muluana Holloway, 1987
• Eupterote murina (Moore, 1877)
• Eupterote naessigi Holloway, 1987
• Eupterote nigriceps (Hampson, 1893)
• Eupterote nobilis (Bryk, 1944)
• Eupterote obsoleta (Talbot, 1926)
• Eupterote orientalis Fabricius
• Eupterote pallida (Walker, 1855)
• Eupterote pandya (Moore, [1866])
• Eupterote patula (Walker, 1855)
• Eupterote petola Moore, 1860
• Eupterote placida (Moore, [1883])
• Eupterote plumipes (Walker, 1855)
• Eupterote radiata (Walker, 1866)
• Eupterote rothschildi (Strand, 1924)
• Eupterote splendens Nässig & C.H. Schulze, 2007
• Eupterote subcurvifera (Walker, 1865)
• Eupterote testacea Walker, 1855
• Eupterote todara Moore, 1884
• Eupterote translata Swinhoe, 1885
• Eupterote udiana Moore, 1860
• Eupterote undans Walker, 1855
• Eupterote undata Blanchard, 1844
• Eupterote unicolor Hampson, 1891
• Eupterote vialis Moore, 1879
• Eupterote weberi (Holloway, 1976)

Former species

• Eupterote collaris (Guérin-Méneville, 1843)
• Eupterote doddi Turner, 1911
• Eupterote expansa (Lucas, 1891)
• Eupterote jaresia Swinhoe, 1904
• Eupterote niassana (Rothschild, 1917)
• Eupterote punctata Joicey & Talbot, 1916

References

• Nässig, W.A., 1989: A new species of the genus Eupterote Hübner [1822] from Sumatra (Lepidoptera, Eupterotidae). Heterocera Sumatrana 2 (7): 169–174.
• Nässig, W.A., 2000: A new and remarkable species of Eupterote from the mountains of West Sumatra (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae). Heterocera Sumatrana 12 (2): 67–77. Full article: [1].
• Nässig, W.A., Holloway, J.D. & Beeke, M., 2011: Description of a new species of Eupterote (Eupterote) from Sulawesi (Indonesia) (Lepidoptera: Eupterotidae). Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo NF 31 (4): 197–200.
• Nässig, W.A., & Schulze, C.H., 2007: A second species with diurnal males of the genus Eupterote from Indonesia: Eupterote (Eupterote) splendens sp. n. from Sulawesi (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Bombycoidea, Eupterotidae). Senckenbergiana Biologica 87 (2): 189–194.

External links

• Hübner, 1820 . Verz. bekannt. Schmett.: 187

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