Plusiodonta

{{Short description|Genus of moths}}

{{Automatic taxobox

| taxon = Plusiodonta

| image = Plusiodonta excavata (Guen%C3%A9e, 1862).jpg

| image_caption = Plusiodonta excavata

| authority = Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852

| synonyms =

  • Gadera Walker, [1858]
  • Deva Walker, [1858]
  • Odontina Guenée, 1862
  • Tafalla Walker, 1869
  • Tinnodoa Nye, 1975

}}

Plusiodonta is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 5, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/calpinae/plusiodonta/ |title=Plusiodonta Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 9, 2020}}{{LepIndex |id=287836 |accessdate=June 9, 2020}}{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=8170.0 |title=Delocoma Swinhoe, 1905 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=June 9, 2020}}

Description

Palpi upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}

Species

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Category:Calpinae

Category:Moth genera

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