Teracotona

Teracotona
Teracotona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Spilosomini
Genus: Teracotona
Butler, 1878
Type species
Aloa rhodophaea
Walker, [1865] 1864

Teracotona is a genus of moths in the Arctiidae family from the Afrotropics.

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Species

Subgenus Teracotona Butler, 1878
  • Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900
    • Teracotona euprepia bicolor de Toulgoët, 1980
  • Teracotona euprepioides Wichgraf, 1921
  • Teracotona iregularis Gaede, 1926
  • Teracotona pardalina Bartel, 1903
  • Teracotona quadripunctata Wichgraf, 1908 (=buryi Rothschild, 1910)
  • Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, [1865])
  • Teracotona submaculata (Walker, 1855)
  • Teracotona trifasciata Bartel, 1903
Subgenus Neoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009
  • Teracotona alicia (Hampson, 1911)
  • Teracotona jacksoni (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Teracotona kovtunovitchi Dubatolov, 2011
  • Teracotona murtafaa Wiltshire, 1980
  • Teracotona pallida Joicey et Talbot, 1924
  • Teracotona pitmanni (Rothschild, 1933)
    • Teracotona pitmani major (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Teracotona postalbida Gaede, 1926
  • Teracotona proditrix Berio, 1939
  • Teracotona pruinosa de Joannis, 1912
  • Teracotona translucens (Grünberg, 1907)
Subgenus Pseudoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009
  • Teracotona abyssinica (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Teracotona approximans (Rothschild, 1917)
  • Teracotona clara Holland, 1892
    • Teracotona clara rubiginea(de Toulgoët, 1977)
  • Teracotona immaculata (Wichgraf, 1921)
  • Teracotona melanocera (Hampson, 1920)
  • Teracotona metaxantha (Hampson, 1920)
  • Teracotona multistrigata Joicey et Talbot, 1924
  • Teracotona neumanni (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Teracotona seminigra (Hampson, 1905)
  • Teracotona senegalensis (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Teracotona subapproximans (Rothschild, 1933)
  • Teracotona subterminata (Hampson, 1901)
  • Teracotona uhrikmeszarosi Szent-Ivany, 1942
  • Teracotona wittei (Debauche, 1942)
Teracotona sensu lato
  • Teracotona homeyeri Rothschild, 1910
  • Teracotona latifasciata Carcasson, 1965

Incorrectly placed species

References

  • Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285-301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
  • Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.
  • Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
  • Teracotona at funet



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