Altha (moth)

Altha
Altha lacteola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Limacodidae
Subfamily:	Limacodinae
Genus:	Altha Walker, 1862
Type species
Altha nivea Walker, 1862
Synonyms
Belgoraea [1]

Altha is a genus of moths of the Limacodidae family.

Description

Palpi short and slight. Mid and hind tibia lack spurs. Fore wings with vein 7 from the cell or stalked with veins 8 and 9. Hind wing with vein 6 and 7 from the cell.^[2]

Species

Some species of this genus are:^[3]

• Altha adala Moore, 1859
• Altha alastor Tams, 1930 from Sulawesi)
• Altha ansorgei Bethune-Baker, 1911 (from Angola and Nigeria)
• Altha basalis West, 1940 (from Congo and Tanzania)
• Altha circumscripta Hering 1931
• Altha contaminata Hampson, 1892
• Altha lacides Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
• Altha lacteola (Swinhoe, 1890) (From Taiwan and Vietnam)
• Altha nivea Walker, 1862 (from India to Sundaland/Borneo)
• Altha nix Solovyev & Witt, 2009 (from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam)
• Altha nuristana Daniel 1865
• Altha peralbida Swinhoe, 1904 (from India)
• Altha pura (from Indonesia)
• Altha rufescens Swinhoe
• Altha rubrifusalis Hampson, 1910 (from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone)
• Altha subnotata Walker, 1865 (from India, Sri Lanka)

References

• Walker, 1862. J. Proc. Linn. Soc. (Zool.) 6 : 173
• Encyclopedia of Life
• A.V. Solovyev & T.J. Witt, "The Limacodidae of Vietnam", Entomofauna, 2009, Suppl 16, page 53.

1. The moths of Borneo
2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-i". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (15.Sept.2014)