Rivula
Rivula | |
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Rivula sericealis | |
Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Rivulinae |
Genus: | Rivula Guenée in Duponchel, [1845] [1] |
Synonyms | |
Rivula is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family.
Description
Palpi porrect, the second joint thickly scaled, and third joint minute. A sharp front tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. The typical section has the tibia of male nealy naked. Fore wings with nearly rectangular apex. Veins 7,8 and 9 stalked. Hind wings with stalked veins 3 and 4.[4]
Selected species
- Rivula aenictopis Turner, 1908
- Rivula albovenata Gaede, 1939
- Rivula arizanensis Wileman & South, 1916
- Rivula basalis Hampson, 1891
- Rivula biagi Bethune-Baker, 1908
- Rivula bicolorana Legrand, 1966
- Rivula catadela Fletcher D. S., 1961
- Rivula cognata Hampson, 1912
- Rivula concinna Lucas, 1895
- Rivula continentalis Gaede, 1939
- Rivula craspisticta Hampson, 1926
- Rivula curvata Gaede, 1939
- Rivula curvifera Walker, 1862
- Rivula cyclina (Mabille, 1900)
- Rivula dimorpha Fryer, 1912
- Rivula dispar de Joannis, 1915
- Rivula endotricha Hampson, 1926
- Rivula erebina Hampson, 1926
- Rivula ethiopina Hampson, 1926
- Rivula everta Swinhoe, 1901
- Rivula invertita (Berio, 1956)
- Rivula leucanioides (Walker, 1863)
- Rivula lophosoma Hampson, 1926
- Rivula modesta Gaede, 1939
- Rivula niphodesma Meyrick, 1891
- Rivula niveipuncta Swinhoe, 1905
- Rivula ochraceoides Poole, 1989
- Rivula ochrea (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
- Rivula parallella (Hampson, 1902)
- Rivula propinqualis Guenée, 1854 – Spotted Grass Moth
- Rivula pusilla Möschler, 1890
- Rivula sericealis Scopoli, 1763 – Straw Dot Moth
- Rivula sororcula (Saalmüller, 1891)
- Rivula stepheni Sullivan, 2009
- Rivula tanitalis Rebel, 1912
- Rivula vicarialis Walker, 1866
References
- ↑ Rivula at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
- ↑ Motina at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
External links
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
- Rebel (1912). Iris 26: 70, fig. 3.
- Rivula at funet.fi
- Scopoli (1763). Ent. Carn.
- Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 12. Retrieved 14 November 2012.
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