Abraxas (moth)

Abraxas
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Geometridae
Genus: Abraxas
Leach, 1815
Species
  • Spilote Hübner, [1806]
  • Spilota Hübner, 1818
  • Zerene Treitschke, 1825
  • Calospilos Hübner, [1825]
  • Callispilus Agassiz, 1847
  • Potera Moore, [1879]
  • Omophyseta Warren, 1894
  • Silabraxas Swinhoe, 1900
  • Chooreechillum Lucas, 1901
  • Dextridens Wehrli, 1934
  • Isostictia Wehrli, 1934
  • Diceratodesia Wehrli, 1935
  • Mesohypoleuca Wehrli, 1935
  • Rhabdotaedoeagus Wehrli, 1935
  • Spinuncus Wehrli, 1935
  • Trimeresia Wehrli, 1935

Abraxas (common name, the magpie moths) is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Description

Palpi porrect and roughly scaled. Hind tibia of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7, 8, 9 and 10, 11 stalked. Vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12, or apparently absent. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell.[1]

Species

References

  1. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna of British India Including Ceylon and Burma Moths Vol-iii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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