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Gyrtona
Gyrtona albicans
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Euteliidae
Genus:	Gyrtona Walker, 1863
Type species
Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
Synonyms
Chuduca Walker, 1863 Clina Walker, 1865 Nigramma Walker, 1863

Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.

Description

Similar to Stictoptera, differs in porrect palpi and more hairy. A large frontal tuft present. Antennae with long cilia in male and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with slightly raised tufts at middle and end of cell.

Species

• Gyrtona albicans (Pagenstecher 1900)
• Gyrtona erebenna (Mabille, 1900)
• Gyrtona eusema (Prout, 1926)
• Gyrtona ferrimissalis Walker, 1863
• Gyrtona inclusalis Walker, 1863
• Gyrtona hylusalis Walker, 1863
• Gyrtona lapidarioides Holloway, ??
• Gyrtona malgassica Kenrick, 1917
• Gyrtona niveivitta Swinhoe, 1905
• Gyrtona obliqualis Holloway, ??
• Gyrtona oxyptera Hampson, 1912
• Gyrtona perlignealis (Walker, 1863)
• Gyrtona polionota Hampson, 1905
• Gyrtona polymorpha Hampson, 1905
• Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863
• Gyrtona pseudoquadratifera Holloway, ??
• Gyrtona purpurea Robinson, 1975
• Gyrtona pyraloides (Walker, 1864)
• Gyrtona semicarbonalis Walker, 1863

References

1. Gyrtona at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum
2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Gyrtona​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 26 November 2012.
3. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

• The Moths of Borneo
• De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Afromoths. Retrieved January 15, 2019.
• Savela, Markku. "Gyrtona Walker, 1863". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 15, 2019.

External links

• Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. pp. 89–90. Retrieved 26 November 2012.

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