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Scaptesyle
Scaptestyle bicolor integra
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Tribe:	Lithosiini
Subtribe:	Cisthenina
Genus:	Scaptesyle Walker, 1854
Synonyms
Chiriphe Walker,

Scaptesyle is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Francis Walker in 1854.

Description

Palpi upturned reaching vertex of head. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Tibia with long spurs. Forewings with stalked veins 4 and 5, vein 6 from below angle of cell and stalked veins 7,8 and 9. Hindwings with stalked veins 3,4 and 6,7. Vein 5 from above angle of cell and vein 8 from middle of cell.

Species

• Scaptesyle aurigena Walker, 1863
• Scaptesyle buergersi Gaede, 1926
• Scaptesyle bicolor Walker, 1864
• Scaptesyle bifasciata Snellen, 1904
• Scaptesyle bipartita Rothschild, 1913
• Scaptesyle bizone Rothschild, 1912
• Scaptesyle dichotoma Meyrick, 1886
• Scaptesyle dictyota Meyrick, 1886
• Scaptesyle equidistans Lucas, 1890
• Scaptesyle fovealis Hampson, 1903
• Scaptesyle ixias Hampson, 1900
• Scaptesyle luzonica Swinhoe, 1916
• Scaptesyle middletoni (Turner, 1941)
• Scaptesyle mirabilis Hampson, 1900
• Scaptesyle monogrammaria Walker, 1862
• Scaptesyle plumosus Rothschild, 1912
• Scaptesyle sororigena Holloway, 2001
• Scaptesyle subtricolor van Eecke, 1927
• Scaptesyle tetramita Turner, 1940
• Scaptesyle thestias Snellen, 1904
• Scaptesyle tricolor Walker, 1854
• Scaptesyle violinitens Rothschild, 1912

Former species

• Scaptesyle aroa Bethune-Baker, 1904
• Scaptesyle incerta Semper, 1899
• Scaptesyle pseudoblabia Hampson, 1918
• Scaptesyle rothschildi Draudt, 1914

References

1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

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