Mania (moth)
{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Acylasisis.JPG
| image_caption = Mania sp., from the collection of Felix Stumpe
| taxon = Mania
| authority = Hübner, 1821
| subdivision_ranks = Species
| subdivision =
| synonyms =
- Nothus Billberg, 1820 [junior homonym of Nothus Ziegler in Oliver, 1811]
- Sematura Dalman, 1825
- Manidia Westwood, 1879 [unnecessary replacement name]
| display_parents = 2
}}
File:Mania lunus - inat 443937914.jpg
File:Mania empedocles - inat 411972409.jpg
File:Mania aegisthus - inat 295767485.jpg
File:Mania diana - inat 185226806.jpg
The genus Mania comprises a group of tropical and semi-tropical New World moths in the family Sematuridae. The genus has historically been referred to as either Nothus or Sematura, but both of these names are invalid (see below).
Taxonomy
The name Nothus is preoccupied by a genus of Coleoptera{{cite web |url=http://uio.mbl.edu/pleary/Animalium/index.php?search=page&id=4418 |title=uio.mbl.edu |publisher=uio.mbl.edu |accessdate=2012-06-12 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110929204810/http://uio.mbl.edu/pleary/Animalium/index.php?search=page&id=4418 |archivedate=2011-09-29 }}(Minet and Scoble, 1999). The genus name Sematura was also commonly in use for this genus, but it was younger (being published in 1825) than Hübner's name Mania from 1821; a petition to conserve the junior name was rejected by the ICZN in Opinion 2352 (2015)[http://iczn.org/node/40515], so Hübner's name is officially now the valid name for the genus.
Species
- Mania aegisthus (Fabricius, 1781) [Jamaica/Surinam] [http://www.mbarnes.force9.co.uk/jamaicamoths/images2/notaeg.htm] [http://www.mbarnes.force9.co.uk/jamaicamoths/images2/notind1.htm "Nothus" species] {{LepIndex |id=69199 |name=Nothus aegisthus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Mania lunigeraria Hübner, 1823 [1825] {{LepIndex |id=69200 |name=Nothus aegisthus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Sematura excavatus Walker, 1854 {{LepIndex |id=69201 |name=Nothus aegisthus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Sematura phoebe Guenée, 1857 {{LepIndex |id=69202 |name=Nothus aegisthus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- Mania diana (Guenée, 1857) [Rio de Janeiro] {{LepIndex |id=69203 |name=Nothus diana |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- Mania empedocles (Cramer, 1782) [Type locality Surinam] [http://www.ogphoto.com/images/bfly2/treebark.jpg] {{LepIndex |id=69207 |name=Nothus empedocles |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Mania empedoclaria Hübner, 1823 {{LepIndex |id=69209 |name=Nothus empedocles |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Sematura selene Guenée, 1857 [https://web.archive.org/web/20041105153344/http://www.tulane.edu/~ldyer/lsacat/species/uraniidae/ura1/ura1.htm Dyer/Gentry/"Sematura luna"] [http://www.papillon-poitou-charentes.org/Lepido_Uraniidae/pages/Papillon44.htm] {{LepIndex |id=69208 |name=Nothus empedocles |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- Mania lunus (Linnaeus, 1758) [http://www.mbarnes.force9.co.uk/belizemoths/images2/nothind1.htm] {{LepIndex |id=69205 |name=Nothus lunus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Mania caudilunaria Hübner, 1823 [1825] {{LepIndex |id=69206 |name=Nothus lunus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
- =Sematura actaeon Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874 {{LepIndex |id=69205 |name=Nothus lunus |accessdate=May 9, 2018}}
Biology
The larvae of Mania lunus were reared in Costa Rica in 2001 and are a bit similar to those of Coronidia, being well camouflaged but bearing small projections rather than long spines one the dorsal surface.[http://www.tulane.edu/~ldyer/lsacat/species/uraniidae/ura1/17327g.gif tulane.edu]{{dead link|date=June 2012}} Host plants recorded were Pentaclethra macroloba (Fabaceae) and Syzygium longifolium (Myrtaceae).[https://web.archive.org/web/20041105153344/http://www.tulane.edu/~ldyer/lsacat/species/uraniidae/ura1/ura1.htm Sematura luna]