Belemniastis
   HOME

TheInfoList



OR:

''Belemniastis'' is a genus of
moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...
s in the subfamily
Arctiinae The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...
. The genus was erected by
George Hampson Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist. Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...
in 1901.


Species

* '' Belemniastis attidates'' Druce, 1900 * '' Belemniastis troetschi'' Druce, 1896 * '' Belemniastis whiteleyi'' Druce, 1888


References


External links

* Arctiinae Noctuoidea genera {{Arctiinae-stub