Dysphania (moth)

Dysphania
D. militaris
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Subfamily:	Geometrinae
Genus:	Dysphania Hübner, [1819]
Synonyms
Deileptena Guérin-Méneville, 1831 Euschema Hübner, 1819 Hazis Boisduval, 1832 Heleona Swainson, 1833 Pareuschema Thierry-Mieg 1905 Polenivora Gistl, 1848

Dysphania is a genus of colourful moths in the family Geometridae and typical of the tribe Dysphaniini; they are sometimes called 'false tiger moths' and are found in northeast Australia, Melanesia, and south, east and southeast Asia.

Description

Most Dysphania are day flying, but there are also nocturnal species. With a typical wingspan of 50–85 millimetres (2.0–3.3 in), they are relatively large compared to many other members of this family.

Species

Species include (incomplete list):

• Dysphania ares (Weymer, 1885)
• Dysphania bivexillata Prout, 1912
• Dysphania cuprina Felder 1874
• Dysphania cyane (Cramer, [1780])
• Dysphania discalis (Walker, 1854)
• Dysphania electra Weymer, 1885
• Dysphania flavidiscalis Warren, 1895
• Dysphania glaucescens (Walker, 1861)
• Dysphania malayanus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - Thailand, western Malesia to Palawan
• Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758) - India, southern China, Indochina, Malesia
• Dysphania numana (Cramer, [1779]) - type species as Phalaena numana - northern Australia, Kiriwina island

  

  Dysphania numana

• Dysphania palmyra Stoll, 1790 - Sri Lanka
• Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891) - western India
• Dysphania poeyii (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
• Dysphania prunicolor Moore, 1879 - India and Sri Lanka
• Dysphania sagana (Druce, 1882) - Indochina, Sumatra
• Dysphania snelleni (Pagenstecher, 1886)
• Dysphania subrepleta (Walker, 1854) - Indochina, western Malesia including Borneo
• Dysphania transducta (Walker, 1861)

References

• Dysphania at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

External links

• Media related to Dysphania (Geometridae) at Wikimedia Commons