''Plusiodonta'' 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 ...

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

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

erected by

Achille Guenée Achille Guenée (sometimes M.A. Guenée; 1 January 1809 – 30 December 1880) was a French lawyer and entomologist. Biography Achille Guenée was born in Chartres and died in Châteaudun. He was educated in Chartres, where he showed a very ear ...

in 1852.

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.

Species

* '' Plusiodonta aborta'' Dognin, 1910 * '' Plusiodonta achalcea'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta amado'' Barnes, 1907 (syn: ''Plusiodonta suffusa'' Hill, 1924) * '' Plusiodonta arctipennis'' Butler, 1886 * '' Plusiodonta auripicta'' Moore, 1882 * '' Plusiodonta basirhabdota'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta casta'' Butler, 1878 * '' Plusiodonta chalcomera'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta clavifera'' Walker, 1868 * '' Plusiodonta cobaltina'' Viette, 1956 * '' Plusiodonta coelonota'' Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844 * '' Plusiodonta commoda'' Walker, 1865 * '' Plusiodonta compressipalpis'' Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 – moonseed moth * '' Plusiodonta cupristria'' Kaye, 1922 * '' Plusiodonta dimorpha'' Robinson, 1975 * '' Plusiodonta effulgens'' Edwards, 1884 * '' Plusiodonta euchalcia'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta excavata'' Guenée, 1862 * '' Plusiodonta gueneei'' Viette, 1968 * '' Plusiodonta incitans'' Walker, 1857 * '' Plusiodonta ionochrota'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta macra'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta malagasy'' Viette, 1968 * '' Plusiodonta megista'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Plusiodonta miranda'' Schaus, 1911 * '' Plusiodonta multicolora'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Plusiodonta natalensis'' Walker, 1865 * '' Plusiodonta nictites'' Hampson, 1902 * '' Plusiodonta nitissima'' Schaus, 1911 * '' Plusiodonta repellens'' Walker, 1857 * '' Plusiodonta speciosissima'' Holland, 1894 * '' Plusiodonta stimulans'' Walker, 1857 * '' Plusiodonta theresae'' Holloway, 1979 * '' Plusiodonta thomae'' Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 * '' Plusiodonta tripuncta'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Plusiodonta wahlbergi'' Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

References

Calpinae Moth genera {{Calpinae-stub