Gyrtona
Genus of moths
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Gyrtona is a genus of moths of the family Euteliidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863.
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| Gyrtona | |
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| Gyrtona albicans | |
Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Euteliidae |
| Genus: | Gyrtona Walker, 1863[1] |
| Type species | |
| Gyrtona proximalis Walker, 1863[2] | |
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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.[3]
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
