''Culama'' 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 family
Cossidae
The Cossidae, the cossid millers or carpenter millers, make up a family of mostly large miller moths. This family contains over 110 genera with almost 700 known species, and many more species await description. Carpenter millers are Lepidopter ...
.
Species
*''australis'' species group
** ''
Culama anthracica''
Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
** ''
Culama australis''
Walker, 1856 (= ''rhytiphorus''
Lower, 1893 and ''mesogeia''
Turner, 1932)
** ''
Culama crepera''
Turner, 1939
** ''
Culama dasythrix''
Turner, 1945
*''suffusca'' species group
** ''
Culama alpina''
Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
** ''
Culama glauca''
Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
** ''
Culama suffusca''
Kallies & D.J. Hilton, 2012
Former species
* ''
Culama caliginosa''
Walker, 1856
* ''
Culama treicleiota''
Bethune-Baker, 1911
References
* , 2012: Revision of Cossinae and small Zeuzerinae from Australia (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). ''Zootaxa'' 3454: 1-62. Abstract
* , 2010: Taxonomic position of the genus ''Culama'' Walker, 1856 (Lepidoptera: Cossidae). ''Euroasian Entomological Journal'', 9 (1): 101-102. Full article
External links
Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Cossinae
Cossidae genera
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