Leucaloa
Leucaloa | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Tribe: | Arctiini |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Leucaloa Butler, 1875 |
Type species | |
Spilosoma eugraphica Walker, [1865] 1864 |
Leucaloa is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.
Species
- Leucaloa butti (Rothschild, 1910)
- Leucaloa eugraphica (Walker, [1865] 1864)
- Leucaloa infragyrea (Saalmüller, 1891)
- Leucaloa nyasica (Hampson, 1911)
References
- Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285-301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
- Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog