Mosopia

Mosopia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-east Asia, including Thailand, Borneo and Malaysia.[1] 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.[2]

Mosopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Erebidae
Subfamily:
Herminiinae
Genus:
Mosopia

Type species
Mosopia megaspila
Walker, 1866
Synonyms
  • Trotosema Butler, 1879

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"). Three other species are also classified in the genus Mosopia.[3]

Species

In alphabetical order:[4]

  • Mosopia eudoxusalis (Walker, [1859]) Sundaland, Thailand
  • Mosopia kononenkoi Holloway, 2008 Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand
  • Mosopia magniplaga (Swinhoe, 1905) Meghalaya
  • Mosopia megaspila Walker, [1866] Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo
  • Mosopia pallidusalis Holloway, 2008 Borneo
  • Mosopia sordidum (Butler, 1879) Japan, Korea

References
  1. "80.ヤガ科(Noctuidae) クルマアツバ亜科(Herminiinae) 一覧". みんなで作る日本産蛾類図鑑 [An Identification Guide of Japanese Moths Compiled by Everyone] (in Japanese). Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  2. 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. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  3. 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)" (PDF). Quadrifina. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. 5: 21–26. Retrieved 20 September 2011.
  4. Savela, Markku (November 18, 2012). "Mosopia Walker, [1866]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 8, 2020.


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