Ercheia

Ercheia
Ercheia pulchrivenula, female
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Ercheiini
Genus:	Ercheia Walker, 1858[1]

Ercheia is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family.

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head and third joint long in both sexes. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Mid and hind tibia spined, whereas fore tibia of male clothed with long hair. Forewings with somewhat rounded apex and crenulate cilia in both wings.^[2]

Species

• Ercheia amoena L.B. Prout, 1919
• Ercheia bergeri Viette, 1968
• Ercheia careona Swinhoe, 1918
• Ercheia chionoptera Druce, 1912
• Ercheia cyllaria (Cramer, 1779)
• Ercheia designata (Warren, 1914)
• Ercheia dipterygia Hampson, 1913
• Ercheia diversipennis Walker, [1858] (syn: Ercheia ambidens (Felder and Rogenhofer, 1874), Ercheia zygia Swinhoe, 1885)
• Ercheia dubia Butler, 1874
• Ercheia ekeikei Bethune-Baker, 1906
• Ercheia enganica Swinhoe, 1918
• Ercheia kebea Bethune-Baker, 1906
• Ercheia latistria L.B. Prout, 1919
• Ercheia mahagonica (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Ercheia multilinea Swinhoe, 1902
• Ercheia niveostrigata Warren, 1913
• Ercheia pulchrivenula Gaede, 1938
• Ercheia pulchrivena (Walker, 1864)
• Ercheia quadriplaga (Walker, 1865)
• Ercheia scotobathra A.E. Prout, 1926
• Ercheia styx Bethune-Baker, 1906
• Ercheia subsignata (Walker, 1865) (syn: Ercheia periploca Holland, 1894)
• Ercheia umbrosa Butler, 1881
• Ercheia zura Swinhoe, 1885

Former species

• Ercheia albirenata Gaede, 1917
• Ercheia anvira Swinhoe, 1918
• Ercheia spilophracta Turner, 1933 (Facidina)

References

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

External links

• Ercheia at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database