''Marathyssa'' is a
genus
Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...
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 of the family
Euteliidae
Euteliidae is a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea
Noctuoidea is the superfamily of noctuid (Latin "night owl") or "owlet" moths, and has more than 70,000 described species, the largest number of any Lepidopteran superfamily. Its ...
. The genus was erected by
Francis Walker in 1865.
Species
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Marathyssa albidisca''
(Hampson, 1905) South Africa, Zimbabwe
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Marathyssa angustipennis''
(Schaus, 1906) Brazil (São Paulo)
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Marathyssa basalis''
Walker, 1865 New York, Massachusetts
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Marathyssa chacoensis''
Barbut & Lalanne-Cassou, 2011 Bolivia
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Marathyssa cistellarix''
(Wallengren, 1860) South Africa
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Marathyssa cuneades''
Draudt, 1950
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Marathyssa cuneata''
(Saalmüller, 1891) Sierra Leone, Mauritania, Burkina Faso, the Gambia, Ghana, Nigeria, Cameroon, Zaire, Sudan, Saudi Arabia, Eritrea, Uganda, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Madagascar
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Marathyssa harmonica''
(Hampson, 1898) Sikkim, southern India
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Marathyssa inficita''
(Walker, 1865) New York to Texas
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Marathyssa minus''
Dyar, 1921 Texas, Arizona
References
Euteliinae
{{Euteliinae-stub