''Cyphura'' is a
genus
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of moths in the
family
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Uraniidae
The Uraniidae are a family (biology), family of moths containing four subfamily (biology), subfamilies, 90 genera, and roughly 700 species. The family is distributed throughout the tropics of the Americas, Africa and Indo-Australia.Carter, David ...
. The genus was erected by
William Warren in 1902.
Distribution
The genus includes primarily
nocturnal
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Nocturnal creatur ...
or
crepuscular
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moths that are found in the
Australasia
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n
tropical
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areas. Species have a generally pale or nearly-white colouration with brown or dark patterns.
The larvae live in webbing of the host plant.
[Jeremy Daniel Holloway, Geoffrey Kibby & Djunijanti Peggie, ''The Families of Malesian Moths and Butterflies'' (Fauna Malesiana Handbooks, Vol. 3), pg. 299]
Species
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Cyphura albisecta''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura approximans''
Swinhoe, 1916
:* ''
Cyphura atramentaria''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura bifasciata''
Butler, 1879
:* ''
Cyphura catenulata''
Warren, 1902
:* ''
Cyphura caudiferaria''
Boisduval
:* ''
Cyphura clarissima''
Butler
:* ''
Cyphura costalis''
Butler
:* ''
Cyphura dealbata''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura destrigata''
Kirsch
:* ''
Cyphura extensa''
Rothschild
:* ''
Cyphura falka''
Swinhoe
:* ''
Cyphura geminia
''Cyphura'' is a genus of moths in the family (biology), family Uraniidae. The genus was erected by William Warren (entomologist), William Warren in 1902.
Distribution
The genus includes primarily nocturnal or crepuscular moths that are found in ...
''
(Cramer, 1777) (Ambon Island)
:* ''
Cyphura gutturalis''
Swinhoe, 1916
:* ''
Cyphura latimarginata''
Swinhoe, 1902
:* ''
Cyphura maxima''
Strand
:* ''
Cyphura multistrigaria''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura mundaria''
Walker
:* ''
Cyphura pannata''
Felder
:* ''
Cyphura pardata''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura phantasma''
Felder
:* ''
Cyphura pieridaria''
Warren, 1902
:* ''
Cyphura reducta''
Joicey & Talbot
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Cyphura semialba''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura semiobsoleta''
Warren
:* ''
Cyphura subsimilis''
Warren, 1902
:* ''
Cyphura swinhoei''
Joicey, 1917
:* ''
Cyphura urapteroides''
Joicey
References
External links
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Uraniidae - Yale University
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Uraniidae