Pterogonia

Pterogonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nolidae
Subfamily:	Chloephorinae
Genus:	Pterogonia; Swinhoe, 1891

Pterogonia is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae described by Swinhoe in 1891.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned and reaching above a sharp frontal tuft. Forewings with straight costa. Outer margin angled at vein 3. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an areole. The retinaculum is bar-shaped in male. Hindwings with vein 8 anastomosing with vein 7 to middle of cell. Vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.^[1]

Species

Pterogonia aurigutta (Walker, 1858)
Pterogonia cardinalis Holloway, 1976
Pterogonia cassidata Warren, 1916
Pterogonia episcopalis Swinhoe, 1891
Pterogonia nubes (Hampson, 1893)

References

^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Savela, Markku. "Pterogonia Swinhoe, 1891". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pterogonia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

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[1] 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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