Dysphania is a genus of colourful moths in the family Geometridae and typical of the tribe Dysphaniini; they are sometimes called 'false tiger moths' and are found in northeast Australia, Melanesia, and south, east and southeast Asia.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Geometridae |
| Subfamily: | Geometrinae |
| Genus: | Dysphania Hübner, [1819] |
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Description
editMost Dysphania are day flying, but there are also nocturnal species. With a typical wingspan of 50–85 millimetres (2.0–3.3 in), they are relatively large compared to many other members of this family.
Species
editSpecies include (incomplete list):
- Dysphania ares (Weymer, 1885)
- Dysphania bivexillata Prout, 1912
- Dysphania cuprina Felder 1874
- Dysphania cyane (Cramer, [1780])
- Dysphania discalis (Walker, 1854)
- Dysphania electra Weymer, 1885
- Dysphania flavidiscalis Warren, 1895
- Dysphania glaucescens (Walker, 1861)
- Dysphania malayanus (Guérin-Méneville, 1843) - Thailand, western Malesia to Palawan
- Dysphania militaris (Linnaeus, 1758) - India, southern China, Indochina, Malesia
- Dysphania numana (Cramer, [1779]) - type species as Phalaena numana - northern Australia, Kiriwina island
Dysphania numana - Dysphania palmyra Stoll, 1790 - Sri Lanka
- Dysphania percota (Swinhoe, 1891) - western India
- Dysphania poeyii (Guérin-Méneville, 1831)
- Dysphania prunicolor Moore, 1879 - India and Sri Lanka
- Dysphania sagana (Druce, 1882) - Indochina, Sumatra
- Dysphania snelleni (Pagenstecher, 1886)
- Dysphania subrepleta (Walker, 1854) - Indochina, western Malesia including Borneo
- Dysphania transducta (Walker, 1861)
References
edit- Dysphania at Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms
- Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database
External links
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Media related to Dysphania (Geometridae) at Wikimedia Commons
