Phaegopterini

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Phaegopterini
Banded tussock moth,Halysidota tessellaris
Banded tussock moth,
Halysidota tessellaris
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Suborder: Macrolepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Phaegopterini
Genera

About 150; see text

The Phaegopterini are the largest tribe of moths in the Arctiinae subfamily. It contains the arctiine tussock moths (see also Lymantriidae). As numerous arctiine genera have not yet been assigned to a tribe, the genus list is preliminary.

[edit] Genera

  • Parathyris
  • Pareuchaetes
  • Parevia
  • Pelochyta
  • Phaegoptera
  • Phaeomolis
  • Pitane
  • Pithea
  • Premolis
  • Pryteria
  • Pseudamastus
  • Pseudapistosia
  • Pseudischnocampa
  • Pseudopharus
  • Pseudotesselarctia
  • Psychophasma
  • Purius
  • Pydnaodes
  • Pygarctia
  • Pygoctenucha
  • Regobarrosia
  • Rhipha
  • Robinsonia
  • Romualdia
  • Scaptius
  • Schalotomis
  • Selenarctia
  • Senecauxia - tentatively placed here
  • Soritena
  • Stidzaeras
  • Sutonocrea
  • Sychesia
  • Symphlebia
  • Syntomostola
  • Tessella
  • Tesselarctia
  • Tessellota
  • Thyromolis
  • Trichromia
  • Tricypha
  • Trocodima
  • Turuptiana
  • Viviennea
  • Wanderbiltia
  • Watsonidia
  • Xanthoarctia
  • Xanthophaeina
  • Zaevius
  • Zatrephes
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