Thiacidas

Thiacidas is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. Species are distributed throughout India, Sri Lanka and Myanmar.

Thiacidas
Thiacidas alboporphyrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Subfamily:
Thiacidinae
Genus:
Thiacidas

Walker, 1855
Synonyms
  • Auchenisa Hampson, 1905
  • Galactomoia Fawcett, 1916
  • Panthauma Staudinger, 1892
  • Pteronycta Fawcett, 1918
  • Trisula Moore, 1858
  • Trisulana Bethune-Baker, 1911

Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward) and slender, reaching vertex of head. Second joint is hairy. Legs naked with short spurs. Antennae fasciculated in male. Metathorax with a slight tuft. Abdomen with thick woolly hair on dorsum of proximal segments. Tibia hair and spineless. Forewings are longer and narrow with somewhat arched costa towards apex. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 usually stalked and veins 6 and 7 usually from cell.[1]

Species
  • Thiacidas acronictoides (Berio, 1950)
  • Thiacidas adnanensis (Wiltshire, 1980)
  • Thiacidas alboporphyrea (Pagenstecher, 1907)
  • Thiacidas berenice (Fawcett, 1916)
  • Thiacidas callipona (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Thiacidas cerurodes (Hampson, 1916)
    • Thiacidas cerurodes asiriensis Hacker & Fibiger, 2002
    • Thiacidas cerurodes cerurodes Hampson, 1916
  • Thiacidas cookei (Pinhey, 1958)
  • Thiacidas duplicata (Grünberg, 1910)
  • Thiacidas egregia Staudinger, 1892
  • Thiacidas fasciata (Fawcett, 1917)
  • Thiacidas fractilinea Pinhey, 1968
  • Thiacidas fuscomacula Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas hampsoni (Hacker, 2004)
  • Thiacidas intermedia Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas ivoiriana Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas juvenis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas kanoensis Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas khomasana Mey, 2011
  • Thiacidas krooni Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas legraini Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas leonie Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas meii Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas morettoi Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas mukim (Berio, 1977)
  • Thiacidas nigrimacula (Pinhey, 1968)
  • Thiacidas occidentalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas orientalis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas permutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas politzari Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas postalbida (Gaede, 1939)
  • Thiacidas postica Walker, 1855
  • Thiacidas robertbecki Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas roseotincta (Pinhey, 1962)
    • Thiacidas roseotincta albata Wiltshire, 1994
    • Thiacidas roseotincta roseotincta Pinhey, 1962
  • Thiacidas schausi (Hampson, 1905)
  • Thiacidas senex (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Thiacidas smythi (Gaede, 1939)
  • Thiacidas somaliensis Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas stassarti Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas subhampsoni Hacker & Zilli, 2010
  • Thiacidas submutata Hacker & Zilli, 2007
  • Thiacidas triangulata (Gaede, 1939)

References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  • De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Thiacidas Walker, 1855". Afromoths. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
  • Berio (1950). Bollettino della Società entomologica italiana 80: 92.
  • Berio (1977). Annali del Museo civico di storia naturale Giacomo Doria (Genova) 81: 338, fig. 24.
  • Bethune-Baker (1911). Annals and Magazine of Natural History Serie 8(8): 533–534.
  • Fawcett (1916). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Londonon 1916: 717, pl. 1, fig. 15.
  • Fawcett (1917). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of Londonon 1917: 123.
  • Gaede (1939). Die Gross-Schmetterlinge der Erde 15: 288.
  • Grünberg (1910). in Schultze. Zoologische und anthropologische Ergebnisse einer Forschungsreise im westlichen und zentralen Südafrika 4(1): 132.
  • Hacker (2004). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 1: 274, pl. 13, fig. 6.
  • Hacker & Fibiger (2002). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 9: 193, pl. 6, fig. 18
  • Hacker & Zilli (2007). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 3: 179–246.
  • Hampson (1905). Annals and Magazine of Natural History Serie 7(16): 19.
  • Hampson (1916). Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1916: 129, pl. 1, fig. 43
  • Pagenstecher (1907). Reise in Ostafrika in den Jahren 1903-1905 pp. 114, pl. 6, fig. 17.
  • Pinhey (1958). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 22(B): 117, pl. 1.
  • Pinhey (1962). Occasional Papers of the National Museums of Southern Rhodesia 3 (B): 872, pl. 2, figs. 6 & 7.
  • Pinhey (1968). Annals of the Transvaal Museum 25: 166, pl. 15, figs. 2–4.
  • Staudinger (1892). in Romanoff. Mémoires sur les lépidoptères 6: 404, pl.7, fig. 2.
  • Walker (1855). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 5: 1028.
  • Wiltshire (1980). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 2: 226, pl. 2, fig. 57.
  • Wiltshire (1994). Fauna of Saudi Arabia 14: 125, pl. 17.
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