Avatha

Avatha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Cocytiini
Genus:	Avatha Walker, 1858[1]
Synonyms
Pseudathyrma Butler 1892 Pterochaeta Holland 1900

Avatha is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family.

Species

• Avatha bipartita (Wileman, 1915)
• Avatha bubo (Geyer, 1832)
• Avatha chinensis (Warren, 1913)
• Avatha complens (Walker, 1858)
• Avatha discolor (Fabricius, 1794)
• Avatha ethiopica (Hampson, 1913)
• Avatha eupepla (Prout, 1924)
• Avatha extranea (Berio, 1962)
• Avatha garthei (Kobes, 1989)
• Avatha gertae (Kobes, 1985)
• Avatha heterographa (Hampson, 1912)
• Avatha javanica (Roepke, 1941)
• Avatha macrostidsa (Hampson, 1913)
• Avatha minima (Swinhoe, 1918)
• Avatha mixosema (Prout, 1928)
• Avatha olivacea Prout
• Avatha noctuoides (Guenée, 1852)
• Avatha novoguineana (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
• Avatha paucimacula (Roepke, 1941)
• Avatha pratti (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
• Avatha pulcherrima Butler, 1892
• Avatha pulchrior Holloway, 2005
• Avatha rufiscripta (Hampson, 1926)
• Avatha rhynchophora Prout, 1924
• Avatha simplex (Roepke, 1951)
• Avatha spilota Joicey & Talbot, 1917
• Avatha subpunctata Bethune-Baker, 1906
• Avatha subumbra (Bethune-Baker, 1906)
• Avatha sumatrana (Kobes, 1985)
• Avatha tepescens (Walker, 1858)
• Avatha tepescoides Holloway, 2005
• Avatha uloptera (Prout, 1925)

Former species

• Avatha cyanopasta (Turner, 1908) (Platyja)
• Avatha expectans (Walker, 1858)
• Avatha modesta (Roepke, 1956)
• Avatha stigmata (Moore, 1877)

References

1. taxapad.com

External links

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
• Genus info