Urania (genus)

Urania
U. boisduvalii, Cuba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Geometroidea
Family:	Uraniidae
Subfamily:	Uraniinae
Genus:	Urania Fabricius, 1807[1]
Synonyms
Urania Illiger, 1807[2] Lars Hübner, 1807[3] Cydrus Billberg, 1820[4] Cydimon Dalman, 1825[5] Leilus Swainson, 1833[6] Dasycephalus Walker, 1854[7] Uranidia Westwood, 1879[8]

Illustration of the now extinct Urania sloanus in Cramer & Stoll's "De uitlandsche kapellen: voorkomende in de drie waereld-deelen Asia, Africa en America".

Urania is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae.

The genus name Urania is New Latin from Latin Urania from Ancient Greek Ουρανία, one of the Muses, literally 'The Heavenly One'.^[9][10]

Distribution

The genus includes relatively large day-flying moths that are found in the Central American and South American regions.

Species

• Urania boisduvalii Guérin-Meneville, 1829 Cuba
• Urania leilus Linnaeus, 1758 (Tropical South America east of the Andes)
• Urania fulgens Walker, 1854 (Mexico, through Central America to northwestern South America)
• Urania sloanus Cramer, 1779 (Jamaica; extinct ca. 1894)

References

1. Urania at funet
2. [Illiger], 1807; Allgem. Lit. Ztg. Halle [Jena] 1807 (No. 2): 1181
3. Hübner, [1807]; Samml. exot. Schmett. 1 : pl. [200],
4. Billberg, 1820; Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb.: 81
5. Dalman, 1825; K. VetenskAcad. Handl. 1824 (2) : 407
6. Swainson, 1833; Zool. Illustr. (2): pls. 125-126
7. Walker, 1854; List Spec. Lepid. Insects Colln Br. Mus. 1: 4
8. Westwood, 1879; Trans. Zool. Soc. Lond. 10 : 516, 520-521
9. Lees, David and Neal Smith (1991) Foodplants of the Uraniinae (Uraniinae) and their Systematic, Evolutionary and Ecological Significance or an OCR of the pdf document. In Journal of the Lepidopterists' Society, vol. 45. Retrieved October 29, 2006.
10. The Century Dictionary by The Century Company.Available online.

External links

• Media related to Urania (Uraniidae) at Wikimedia Commons