Euchaetes
Encyclopedia
Euchaetes is a genus
of moth
s in the Arctiidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s in the Arctiidae
Arctiidae
Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...
family.
Species
- Euchaetes albaticosta (Dyar, 1912)
- Euchaetes albicosta (Walker, 1855)
- Euchaetes antica (Walker, 1856)
- Euchaetes bicolor (Rothschild, 1935)
- Euchaetes bolteri (Stretch, 1885)
- Euchaetes castalla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
- Euchaetes cressida (Dyar, 1913)
- Euchaetes egleEuchaetes egleEuchaetes egle, the milkweed tussock caterpillar or milkweed tiger moth, is a moth in the family Arctiidae. It is a common mid to late-summer feeder on milkweeds and dogbane. Like most species in this family, it has chemical defenses it acquires from its host plants, in this case, cardiac glycosides...
(Drury, 1773) - Euchaetes elegans (Stretch, 1874)
- Euchaetes expressa (H. Edwards, 1884)
- Euchaetes fusca (Rothschild, 1910)
- Euchaetes gigantea (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
- Euchaetes helena (Cassino, 1928)
- Euchaetes pannycha (Dyar, 1918)
- Euchaetes perlevis (Grote, 1882)
- Euchaetes polingi (Cassino, 1928)
- Euchaetes promathides (Druce, 1894)
- Euchaetes psara (Dyar, 1907)
- Euchaetes rizoma (Schaus, 1896)
- Euchaetes scepsiformis (Graef, 1887)
- Euchaetes zella (Dyar, 1903)