Thiacidas

Thiacidas
Thiacidas alboporphyrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Thiacidinae
Genus:	Thiacidas Walker, 1855
Synonyms
Auchenisa Hampson, 1905 Galactomoia Fawcett, 1916 Panthauma Staudinger, 1892 Pteronycta Fawcett, 1918 Trisula Moore, 1858 Trisulana Bethune-Baker, 1911

Thiacidas is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. Species are distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Description

Palpi porrect and slender, reaching vertex of head. Second joint is hairy. Legs naked with short spurs. Antennae fasciculated in male. Methathoax with a slight tuft. Abdomen with thick woolly hair on dorsum of proximal segments. Tibia hair and spineless. Fore wings are longer and narrow with somewhat arched costa towards apex. Hind wings with veins 3 and 4 usually stalked and veins 6 and 7 usually from cell.^[1]

Species

• Thiacidas acronictoides (Berio, 1950)
• Thiacidas adnanensis (Wiltshire, 1980)
• Thiacidas alboporphyrea (Pagenstecher, 1907)
• Thiacidas berenice (Fawcett, 1916)
• Thiacidas callipona (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Thiacidas cerurodes (Hampson, 1916)
  • Thiacidas cerurodes asiriensis Hacker & Fibiger, 2002
  • Thiacidas cerurodes cerurodes Hampson, 1916
• Thiacidas cookei (Pinhey, 1958)
• Thiacidas duplicata (Grünberg, 1910)
• Thiacidas egregia Staudinger, 1892
• Thiacidas fasciata (Fawcett, 1917)
• Thiacidas fractilinea Pinhey, 1968
• Thiacidas fuscomacula Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas hampsoni (Hacker, 2004)
• Thiacidas intermedia Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas ivoiriana Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas juvenis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas khomasana Mey, 2011
• Thiacidas krooni Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas legraini Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas leonie Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas meii Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas morettoi Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas mukim (Berio, 1977)
• Thiacidas nigrimacula (Pinhey, 1968)
• Thiacidas occidentalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas orientalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas permutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas politzari Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas postalbida (Gaede, 1939)
• Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855
• Thiacidas robertbecki Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas roseotincta (Pinhey, 1962)
  • Thiacidas roseotincta albata Wiltshire, 1994
  • Thiacidas roseotincta roseotincta Pinhey, 1962
• Thiacidas schausi (Hampson, 1905)
• Thiacidas senex (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
• Thiacidas smythi (Gaede, 1939)
• Thiacidas somaliensis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas subhampsoni Hacker & Zilli, 2010
• Thiacidas submutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
• Thiacidas triangulata (Gaede, 1939)

References

1. 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.

• afromoths
• Berio (1950). Boll. Soc. Ent. Ital. 80: 92.
• Berio (1977). Ann. Mus. Civ. Stor. Nat. Giacomo Doria (Genova) 81: 338, fig. 24.
• Bethune-Baker (1911). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Serie 8(8): 533-534.
• Fawcett (1916). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1916: 717, pl. 1, fig. 15.
• Fawcett (1917). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1917: 123.
• Gaede (1939). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 15: 288.
• Grünberg (1910). in Schultze. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika 4(1): 132.
• Hacker (2004). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 1: 274, pl. 13, fig. 6.
• Hacker & Fibiger (2002). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 9: 193, pl. 6, fig. 18
• Hacker & Zilli (2007). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 3: 179-246.
• Hampson (1905). Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Serie 7(16): 19.
• Hampson (1916). Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1916: 129, pl. 1, fig. 43
• Pagenstecher (1907). Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 pp. 114, pl. 6, fig. 17.
• Pinhey (1958). Occ. Pap. Natn. Mus. Sth. Rhod. 22(B): 117, pl. 1.
• Pinhey (1962). Occ. Pap. Natn. Mus. Sth. Rhod. 3 (B): 872, pl. 2, figs. 6 & 7.
• Pinhey (1968). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 25: 166, pl. 15, figs. 2-4.
• Staudinger (1892). in Romanoff. Mém. Lép. 6: 404, pl.7, fig. 2.
• Walker (1855). List Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 5: 1028.
• Wiltshire (1980). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2: 226, pl. 2, fig. 57.
• Wiltshire (1994). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 125, pl. 17.