Scaptesyle

Scaptesyle
	Scaptestyle bicolor integra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Tribe:	Lithosiini
Subtribe:	Cisthenina
Genus:	Scaptesyle; Walker, 1854
Synonyms
	Chiriphe Walker, [1863];

Scaptesyle is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Francis Walker in 1854.

Description

Palpi upturned reaching vertex of head. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Tibia with long spurs. Forewings with stalked veins 4 and 5, vein 6 from below angle of cell and stalked veins 7,8 and 9. Hindwings with stalked veins 3,4 and 6,7. Vein 5 from above angle of cell and vein 8 from middle of cell.^[1]

Species

Scaptesyle aurigena Walker, 1863
Scaptesyle buergersi Gaede, 1926
Scaptesyle bicolor Walker, 1864
Scaptesyle bifasciata Snellen, 1904
Scaptesyle bipartita Rothschild, 1913
Scaptesyle bizone Rothschild, 1912
Scaptesyle dichotoma Meyrick, 1886
Scaptesyle dictyota Meyrick, 1886
Scaptesyle equidistans Lucas, 1890
Scaptesyle fovealis Hampson, 1903
Scaptesyle ixias Hampson, 1900
Scaptesyle luzonica Swinhoe, 1916
Scaptesyle middletoni (Turner, 1941)
Scaptesyle mirabilis Hampson, 1900
Scaptesyle monogrammaria Walker, 1862
Scaptesyle plumosus Rothschild, 1912
Scaptesyle sororigena Holloway, 2001
Scaptesyle subtricolor van Eecke, 1927
Scaptesyle tetramita Turner, 1940
Scaptesyle thestias Snellen, 1904
Scaptesyle tricolor Walker, 1854
Scaptesyle violinitens Rothschild, 1912

Former species

Scaptesyle aroa Bethune-Baker, 1904
Scaptesyle incerta Semper, 1899
Scaptesyle pseudoblabia Hampson, 1918
Scaptesyle rothschildi Draudt, 1914

References

^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

This Nudariina-related article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

[1] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[1]