Fossia
Appearance
Fossia | |
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Fossia bachma, Vietnam | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Tribe: | Lithosiini |
Genus: | Fossia Volynkin, Ivanova & Huang, 2019 |
Fossia is a genus in the moth family Erebidae. There are about five described species in Fossia, widespread in the Himalayan region, western and southern China, and Indochina.[1][2]
Species
[edit]These five species belong to the genus Fossia:
- Fossia bachma (Volynkin & Černý, 2018)
- Fossia elongata (Černý, 2016)
- Fossia melanandra (Černý & Pinratana, 2009)
- Fossia punicea (Moore, 1878)
- Fossia sirikitae (Volynkin & Černý, 2018)
References
[edit]- ^ "Fossia Volynkin, Ivanova & Huang, 2019". Catalogue of Life. Retrieved 2024-08-07.
- ^ Volynkin, Anton V.; Huang, Si-Yao; Ivanova, Maria S. (2019). "An overview of genera and subgenera of the Asura / Miltochrista generic complex (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae)". Ecologica Montenegrina. 26. doi:10.37828/em.2019.26.3.
External links
[edit]- Citizen science observations for Fossia at iNaturalist
Media related to Fossia at Wikimedia Commons