Detoulgoetia
| Detoulgoetia | |
|---|---|
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Arctiini |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Detoulgoetia Dubatolov, 2006 |
| Type species | |
| Spilosoma aspersa Mabille, 1878 | |
Detoulgoetia is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths are found in Madagascar and Comores. Goodger & Watson (1995) note that the species of this genus have white or yellowish wings speckled with brown dots without order and with dark discal spots.[1]
Species
- Detoulgoetia aspersa (Mabille, 1879) (now considered as a synonym of D. virginalis)
- Detoulgoetia comorensis Rothschild, 1933
- Detoulgoetia pseudosparsata Rothschild, 1933
- Detoulgoetia virginalis (Butler, 1878)
- Detoulgoetia virginalis comorensis (Rothschild, 1933)
- Detoulgoetia virginalis pseudosparsata (Rothschild, 1933)
- Detoulgoetia virginalis pupieri (de Toulgoët, 1991)
References
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2014. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (06.Apr.2014
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
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