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Chusaris is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was erected by Francis Walker in 1859.

Description

Palpi long and porrect (extending forward), where the second joint fringed with scales above. Third joint slender and naked. Thorax smooth. Abdomen with a tuft on basal segment. Legs slender and naked. Forewings long and narrow with depressed and acute apex. Slight raised tufts found at middle and end of cell. Forewings with veins 6 and 7 arise from angle of cell and veins 8 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 stalked and vein 5 from middle of discocellulars. Veins 6 and 7 stalked.

Species

• Chusaris albilineata Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris albipunctalis Rothschild, 1915
• Chusaris bisinuata Hampson, 1898
• Chusaris compripalpis Strand, 1920
• Chusaris dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1908
• Chusaris dubiosa Strand, 1919
• Chusaris figurata (Moore, )
• Chusaris griseisigna Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris idaeoides (Hampson, 1891)
• Chusaris indigna (Wileman & West, 1930)
• Chusaris indistincta (Rothschild, 1920)
• Chusaris maculalis Walker,
• Chusaris meterythrina Hampson, 1898
• Chusaris microlepidopteronis (Strand, 1920)
• Chusaris mulumaculata Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris nigrisigna Hampson, 1902
• Chusaris nigromaculata (Wileman, 1915)
• Chusaris obliquisignata Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris olearia Bethune-Baker, 1908
• Chusaris opisthospila Turner, 1909
• Chusaris bifasciata Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris paucimaculata (Hampson, 1893)
• Chusaris puncticilia (Hampson, 1891)
• Chusaris purpurisigna Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris renalis (Moore, 1882)
• Chusaris retatalis Walker,
• Chusaris retataloides Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris rhynchinodes Strand, 1915
• Chusaris roseolactea (Rothschild, 1915
• Chusaris setocircularis Holloway, 2008
• Chusaris signicosta (Walker, )
• Chusaris sordida (Wileman & South, 1917)
• Chusaris venata Warren, 1914
• Chusaris violisigna Holloway, 2008

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Chusaris​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
2. Savela, Markku (April 26, 2020). "Chusaris Walker, [1859]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Chusaris Walker, 1859". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved July 2, 2020.
4. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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