Dichromia
Dichromia legrosi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Hypeninae
Genus: Dichromia
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854
Type species
Phalaena orosia Cramer, 1780[1]
Synonyms
  • Ametropalpis Mabille, 1884
  • Eugorna Holland, 1894
  • Camphypena Prout, 1927

Dichromia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1854.[2]

Description

Palpi roughly scaled, where the second joint long and porrect (extending forward). Third joint obliquely upturned and ending in a naked point. A sharp frontal tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated in the male. Forewings with the depressed and slightly acute apex. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing (fusing) to form the areole. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell. Vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars and veins 6 and 7 from upper angle.[3]

Species

Some species of this genus are:

  • Dichromia aculeifera (Aurivillius, 1925)
  • Dichromia albistriga (Mabille, 1900)
  • Dichromia amica Butler, 1878
  • Dichromia ampullata Holloway, 2008
  • Dichromia aroa (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
  • Dichromia carninalis Viette, 1956
  • Dichromia claripennis Butler, 1878
  • Dichromia cognata (Moore, 1885)
  • Dichromia erastrialis (Walker, 1866)
  • Dichromia euthygramma (Prout, 1921)
  • Dichromia fascifera (Holland, 1894)
  • Dichromia frustalis Warren, 1913
  • Dichromia indicatalis Walker, 1859
  • Dichromia isoplocalis Viette, 1956
  • Dichromia legrosi (Guillermet, 1992)
  • Dichromia limbopunctata (Strand, 1915)
  • Dichromia mesomelaena (Hampson, 1902)
  • Dichromia mutilata (Strand, 1909)
  • Dichromia nasuta (Mabille, 1884)
  • Dichromia occatus (Moore, 1882)
  • Dichromia opulenta (Christoph, 1877)
  • Dichromia orosia Meyrick, 1913
  • Dichromia otiata Swinhoe, 1901
  • Dichromia pullata Moore, 1885
  • Dichromia quadralis Walker, 1859
  • Dichromia quinqualis Walker, 1859
  • Dichromia rationalis Viette, 1956
  • Dichromia sagitta (Fabricius, 1775)
  • Dichromia semlikiensis (Prout, 1921)
  • Dichromia sieglinde Viette, 1956
  • Dichromia thermesialis (Walker, 1866)
  • Dichromia thomensis (Prout, 1927)
  • Dichromia triangularis (Moore, 1882)
  • Dichromia trigonalis Guenée, 1854
  • Dichromia triplicalis Walker, 1859
  • Dichromia xanthaspisalis Viette, 1956

References

  1. Lödl, (1993). "Notes on the synonymy of the genera Hypena Schrank, 1802, Dichromia, Guenée, 1854 and Harita Moore, 1882 (Lep. Noctuidae: Hypeninae)". Zeitschreift der Arbeitsgemeinschaft Österreichischer Entomologen. 45 (1/2).
  2. Savela, Markku (July 31, 2019). "Dichromia Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 11, 2020.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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