Polydesma

Polydesma
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Pandesmini
Genus:	Polydesma; Boisduval, 1833
Synonyms
	Anthemoisia Blanchard, 1840; Anthemoessa Agassiz, [1847]; Anodapha Moore, [1885]; Trichopolydesma Berio, 1954;

Polydesma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1833.^[1]^[2]^[3]

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with slight basal ridges and tuft of hair. Tibia spineless and more or less hairy. Forewings with somewhat rounded apex. Hindwings with vein 5 arise from above angle of cell. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are rudimentary.^[4]

Species

Polydesma boarmoides Guenée, 1852 Uganda, South Africa, Indo-Australian Region, Fiji, New Caledonia, Hawaii
Polydesma collusoria (Berio, 1954) Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania
Polydesma erubescens Walker, 1865 Sri Lanka
Polydesma hildebrandti Viette, 1967 Madagascar
Polydesma scriptilis Guenée, 1852 Eritrea, Somalia, Namibia, Bangladesh, East Indies
Polydesma umbricola Boisduval, 1833 Mauritania, Sierra Leone, the Gambia, Burkina Faso, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Niger, Cameroon, Congo, Zaire, Angola, Arabia, Egypt, Sudan, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Somalia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Eswatini, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Mauritius, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Vietnam, New Caledonia, Australia, Hawaii

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polydesma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 1, 2020.
^ 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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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Polydesma". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

[2] Savela, Markku (June 1, 2020). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

[3] Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Polydesma Boisduval, 1833". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 1, 2020.

[4] 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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