Teracotona
Encyclopedia
Teracotona is a genus
of moth
s in the Arctiidae
family from the Afrotropics.
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 from the Afrotropics.
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