Mosopia

Mosopia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-east Asia, including Thailand, Borneo and Malaysia^[2]. The genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 from a specimen in the British Museum. The specimen Walker describes was from Penang in Malaysia.^[3]

Walker gave Mosopia megaspila as a type species. This species has a wingspan of 39 millimetres (1.5 in) with a large distinctive black spot in the middle of each forewings (hence the name megaspila, which means "large spotted"). There are three other species classified under the Mosopia genus.^[4]

References

1. ^ The last is disputed and was synonymized with M. eudoxusalis by Robert Poole in 1989. See Lödl's article
2. ^ "Herminiinae". Digital Moths of Asia. http://www.jpmoth.org/~dmoth/Digital_Moths_of_Asia/80_Noctuidae/02_Herminiinae/framepage%20Herminiinae.html. 
3. ^ Walker, Francis (1866). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. London: Edward Newman. pp. 1187–1188. http://books.google.com/books?id=_dw4AAAAMAAJ&pg=1187. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011. 
4. ^ Lödl, M. (2002). "Notes on the genus Mosopia WALKER, [1866 1865 with redescription of the type-species M. megaspila WALKER, [1866] 1865 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Herminiinae)"]. Quadrifina (Naturhistorisches Museum Wien) 5: 21–26. http://www.landesmuseum.at/pdf_frei_remote/Quad_5_0021-0026.pdf. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011.