| Altha | |
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| Altha lacteola | |
Scientific classification 
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Limacodidae |
| Subfamily: | Limacodinae |
| Genus: | Altha Walker, 1862 |
| Type species | |
| Altha nivea Walker, 1862 | |
| Synonyms | |
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Altha is a genus of moths of the family Limacodidae first described by Francis Walker in 1862.
Description
Palpi short and slight. Mid and hind tibia lack spurs. Forewings with vein 7 from the cell or stalked with veins 8 and 9. Hindwing with vein 6 and 7 from the cell.2
Species
Some species of this genus are:3
- Altha adala Moore, 1859
- Altha alastor Tams, 1930 (from Sulawesi)
- Altha ansorgei Bethune-Baker, 1911 (from Angola and Nigeria)
- Altha basalis West, 1940 (from Congo and Tanzania)
- Altha circumscripta Hering 1931
- Altha contaminata Hampson, 1892
- Altha lacides Hampson, 1910 (from Zambia)
- Altha lacteola (Swinhoe, 1890) (from Taiwan and Vietnam)
- Altha nivea Walker, 1862 (from India to Sundaland/Borneo)
- Altha nix Solovyev & Witt, 2009 (from Laos, Thailand and Vietnam)
- Altha nuristana Daniel 1865
- Altha peralbida Swinhoe, 1904(from India)
- Altha pura (from Indonesia)
- Altha rufescens Swinhoe
- Altha rubrifusalis Hampson, 1910 (from Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone)
- Altha subnotata Walker, 1865(from India, Sri Lanka)
References
References
- Walker, 1862. Journal of the Proceedings of the Linnean Society: Zoology 6: 173
- Encyclopedia of Life
- A.V. Solovyev & T.J. Witt, "The Limacodidae of Vietnam", Entomofauna, 2009, Suppl 16, page 53.
- The Moths of Borneo
- Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Altha Walker, 1862". Afromoths. Retrieved November 18, 2018.