Rivula

Rivula is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae described by Achille Guenée in 1845.

Rivula
Rivula sericealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Rivulinae
Genus: Rivula
Guenée in Duponchel, [1845] [1]
Synonyms[2][3][4]
  • Cholimma Walker, [1863]
  • Motina Walker, 1863
  • Plotheia Walker, 1863
  • Rhazunda Walker, 1866
  • Pasira Moore, 1882
  • Rivulana Bethune-Baker, 1911
  • Prorivula Schaus, 1913
  • Euchromalia Schaus, 1916
  • Alikangiana Strand, 1920
  • Paurosceles Turner, 1945
  • Thopelia Nye, 1975

Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward), the second joint thickly scaled, and third joint minute. A sharp front tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. The typical section has the tibia of the male nearly naked. Forewings with nearly rectangular apex. Veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked. Hindwings with stalked veins 3 and 4.[5]

Species

  • Rivula aenictopis Turner, 1908
  • Rivula aequalis Walker, 1863
  • Rivula albistriga (Hampson, 1893)
  • Rivula albovenata Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula anaemica Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula anapsida de Joannis, 1929
  • Rivula apsidiphora de Joannis, 1929
  • Rivula arizanensis Wileman & South, 1916
  • Rivula aroa Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Rivula asteria H. Druce, 1898
  • Rivula atimeta C. Swinhoe, 1905
  • Rivula auripalpis Butler, 1839
  • Rivula basalis Hampson, 1891
  • Rivula biagi Bethune-Baker, 1908
  • Rivula bicolorana Legrand, 1965
  • Rivula bioculalis Moore, 1877
  • Rivula calamina Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula calcaripuncta Holloway, 2008
  • Rivula caledonica Holloway, 1979
  • Rivula catadela D. S. Fletcher, 1961
  • Rivula cognata Hampson, 1912
  • Rivula concinna T. P. Lucas, 1895
  • Rivula concolor Hulstaert, 1924
  • Rivula constellata Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula continentalis Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula costinotata Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula craspisticta Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula curvata Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula curvifera Walker, 1862
  • Rivula curvilinea Wileman, 1911
  • Rivula cyanepuncta Hampson, 1907
  • Rivula cyclina (Mabille, 1900)
  • Rivula dimorpha Fryer, 1912
  • Rivula dipterygosoma Tams, 1935
  • Rivula dispar de Joannis, 1915
  • Rivula distributa Walker, 1866
  • Rivula dubitatrix Bryk, 1948
  • Rivula endotricha Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula erebina Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula errabunda Wileman, 1911
  • Rivula ethiopina Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula everta C. Swinhoe, 1901
  • Rivula faircloughi Holloway, 2008
  • Rivula geminipunta Turner, 1945
  • Rivula inconspicua Butler, 1881
  • Rivula innotabilis Walker, 1863
  • Rivula invertita (Berio, 1956)
  • Rivula latipes Schaus, 1913
  • Rivula leucanioides (Walker, 1863)
  • Rivula leuconephra Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula leucosticta C. Swinhoe, 1895
  • Rivula lophosoma Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula mageei Holloway, 2008
  • Rivula manuselensis A. E. Prout, 1922
  • Rivula maxwelli Robinson, 1975
  • Rivula meeki Bethune-Baker, 1906
  • Rivula microcyma Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula microsticta Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula modesta Gaede, 1939
  • Rivula monorena Holloway
  • Rivula niphodesma Meyrick, 1891
  • Rivula niveipuncta C. Swinhoe, 1905
  • Rivula ochracea Berio, 1956
  • Rivula ochraceoides Poole, 1989
  • Rivula ochrea (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Rivula pallida Moore, 1882
  • Rivula parallella (Hampson, 1902)
  • Rivula peruvensis Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula plumipes Hampson, 1907
  • Rivula polynesiana Hampson, 1926
  • Rivula propinqualis Guenée, 1854 spotted grass moth
  • Rivula pusilla Möschler, 1890
  • Rivula rentoni Holloway, 2008
  • Rivula robinsoni Holloway, 2008
  • Rivula rufescens Schaus, 1913
  • Rivula sericealis Scopoli, 1763 straw dot moth
  • Rivula simulatrix Hampson, 1912
  • Rivula sordida Walker, [1863]
  • Rivula sororcula (Saalmüller, 1891)
  • Rivula stepheni Sullivan, 2009
  • Rivula striatura C. Swinhoe, 1895
  • Rivula tanitalis Rebel, 1912
  • Rivula trilineata Moore, 1888
  • Rivula unctalis Staudinger, 1892
  • Rivula vicarialis Walker, 1866
  • Rivula violetta Schaus, 1904

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Rivula". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Rivula". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Rivula Guenée, 1845". Afromoths. Retrieved 11 June 2020.
  4. Savela, Markku, ed. (July 5, 2019). "Rivula Guenée in Duponchel, [1845]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 18, 2020.
  5. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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