Gyrtona

Gyrtona
	Gyrtona albicans
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Gyrtona; Walker, 1863[1]
Type species
	Gyrtona proximalis; Walker, 1863[2]
Synonyms
	Chuduca Walker, 1863; Clina Walker, 1865; Nigramma Walker, 1863;

Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.

Description

Similar to Stictoptera, differs in porrect palpi and more hairy. A large frontal tuft present. Antennae with long cilia in male and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with slightly raised tufts at middle and end of cell.[3]

Species

Gyrtona albicans (Pagenstecher 1900)
Gyrtona erebenna (Mabille, 1900)
Gyrtona eusema (Prout, 1926)
Gyrtona ferrimissalis Walker, 1863
Gyrtona inclusalis Walker, 1863
Gyrtona hylusalis Walker, 1863
Gyrtona lapidarioides Holloway, ??
Gyrtona malgassica Kenrick, 1917
Gyrtona niveivitta Swinhoe, 1905
Gyrtona obliqualis Holloway, ??
Gyrtona oxyptera Hampson, 1912
Gyrtona perlignealis (Walker, 1863)
Gyrtona polionota Hampson, 1905
Gyrtona polymorpha Hampson, 1905
Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
Gyrtona pseudoquadratifera Holloway, ??
Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
Gyrtona pyraloides (Walker, 1864)
Gyrtona semicarbonalis Walker, 1863

References

Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Gyrtona". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

The Moths of Borneo
De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Afromoths. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
Savela, Markku. "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2019.

External links

Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 26 November 2012.

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[1] Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum

[2] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Gyrtona". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 November 2012.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.