''Tamba '' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms as well as viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus comes above species and below family. In binomial n ...

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of ...

s in the family Erebidae. It was erected by Francis Walker in 1869.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the

Catocalinae The Catocalinae are a subfamily of noctuoid moths, placed in family Noctuidae. In the alternative arrangement, where the Noctuidae are reduced to the core group around the Noctuinae, the present lineage is abolished, the upranked Catocalini ...

Calpinae The Calpinae are a subfamily of moths in the family Erebidae described by Jean Baptiste Boisduval in 1840. This subfamily includes many species of moths that have a pointed and barbed proboscis adapted to piercing the skins of fruit to feed on ...

subfamilies of the Erebidae or

Noctuidae The Noctuidae, commonly known as owlet moths, cutworms or armyworms, are a family of moths. They are considered the most controversial family in the superfamily Noctuoidea because many of the clades are constantly changing, along with the othe ...

families.

Characteristics

This is a large but morphologically uniform genus of rather delicate erebid moths with distinctively patterned wings, the

hindwing Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hi ...

s usually having most elements of the

forewing Insect wings are adult outgrowths of the insect exoskeleton that enable insects to fly. They are found on the second and third thoracic segments (the mesothorax and metathorax), and the two pairs are often referred to as the forewings and hin ...

pattern. The ground color of the wings is usually pale fawn or grayish, and the forewing postmedial line is usually angled or curved round the discal area, though its more posterior oblique section may be continued by one of its components towards the apex. The male antennae are ciliate, and the legs are often tufted with scale crests and hair pencils. The labial palps are typical for catocalines.

Species

* '' Tamba albidalis'' Walker, 1865 * '' Tamba andrica'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba angulata'' Candeze, 1927 * '' Tamba apicata'' Hampson, 1902 * ''

Tamba ardescens Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Prout, 1926 * '' Tamba basiscripta'' Walker, 1864 * '' Tamba capatra'' Swinhoe, 1903 * '' Tamba carneotincta'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba carnitincta'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba chloroplaga'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Tamba cinnamomea'' Leech, 1900 * '' Tamba coeruleobasis'' Kobes, 1989 * '' Tamba conscripta'' Lucas, 1892 * '' Tamba corealis'' Leech, 1889 * '' Tamba cosmoloma'' Prout, 1928 * ''

Tamba costinotata Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Butler, 1881 * ''

Tamba cyrtogramma Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Turner, 1908 * '' Tamba decolor'' Walker, 1865 * '' Tamba delicata'' Prout, 1932 * ''

Tamba diaphora Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba dichroma'' Prout, 1932 * ''

Tamba dinawa Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Tamba elachista'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba elegans'' Pagenstecher, 1884 * ''

Tamba euryodia ''Tamba euryodia'' is a noctuoid moth in the family Erebidae first described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932. Characteristics The ground colour of the hindwing and much of the medial and dorsal area of the forewing are largely obscured by are ...

'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba flaviolata'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba fulvivenis'' Bethune-Baker, 1910 * '' Tamba gensanalis'' Leech, 1889 * '' Tamba grandis'' Turner, 1933 * ''

Tamba griseipars Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Hampson, 1926 * ''

Tamba haemacta Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Turner, 1908 * ''

Tamba hemiionia Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Hampson, 1926 * ''

Tamba hieroglyphica Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba ionomera'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba kebea'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * ''

Tamba lahera Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Swinhoe, 1897 * '' Tamba lala'' Swinhoe, 1900 * ''

Tamba lineifera ''Tamba lineifera'' is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a 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 g ...

'' Walker, 1865 * '' Tamba lorio'' Swinhoe, 1903 * '' Tamba magniplaga'' Swinhoe, 1902 * ''

Tamba malayana Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba meeki'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * ''

Tamba megaspila Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Warren, 1903 * '' Tamba mindoro'' Felder, 1874 * '' Tamba mnionomera'' Hampson, 1926 * ''

Tamba multiplaga Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Swinhoe, 1901 * '' Tamba nigrilinea'' Walker, 1869 * '' Tamba nigrilineata'' Wileman, 1915 * ''

Tamba ochra ''Tamba ochra'' is a noctuoid moth in the family Erebidae first, described by Louis Beethoven Prout in 1932. It inhabits lowland forests of Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia and Borneo Borneo (; id, Kalimantan) is the third-largest island ...

'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba ochracea'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba ochreistriga'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * '' Tamba ochrodes'' Swinhoe, 1899 * '' Tamba olivacea'' Pagenstecher, 1884 * '' Tamba pallida'' Prout, 1925 * '' Tamba palliolata'' Swinhoe, 1890 * ''

Tamba parallela Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Wileman, 1915 * '' Tamba plumipes'' Hampson, 1926 * ''

Tamba pronoa Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Turner * ''

Tamba prunescens Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba punctistigma'' Hampson, 1895 * '' Tamba reduplicalis'' Walker, 1865 * '' Tamba rufipennis'' Hampson, 1895 * '' Tamba scopulina'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba sidonalis'' Swinhoe, 1917 * '' Tamba sobana'' Kobes, 1983 * ''

Tamba sondaicus Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Snellen, 1877 * ''

Tamba splendida Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places ...

'' Prout, 1926 * '' Tamba submicacea'' Walker, 1869 * ''

Tamba syndesma Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people#Notable Kono people, Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922� ...

'' Lower, 1903 * '' Tamba tephraea'' Turner, 1909 * ''

Tamba tessellata Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * ''

Tamba thermeola Tamba may refer to: People * a traditional name among the Kono people of Sierra Leone, West Africa * Tamba Hali (born 1983), Liberia-born American football player *, Japanese sport wrestler * Tetsurō Tamba (1922–2006), Japanese actor Places * ...

'' Hampson, 1926 * '' Tamba usurpatalis'' Walker, 1858 * '' Tamba vandenberghi'' Prout, 1932 * '' Tamba vinolia'' Hampson, 1895

References

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tamba (Moth) Boletobiinae Noctuoidea genera