''Phalga'' 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 Moore in 1881.
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index
The Global Lepidoptera Names Index (LepIndex) is a searchable database maintained by the Department of Entomology at the Natural History Museum, London. It is based on card indices and scanned journals, nomenclatural catalogues and the ''Zoologica ...
considers this name to be a synonym of ''
Eutelia''.
Species
*''
Phalga clarirena''
(Sugi, 1982) Japan
*''
Phalga sinuosa''
Moore, 1881 north-eastern Himalayas, Thailand, Sundaland, Sulawesi
References
Euteliinae
{{Euteliinae-stub