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Egnasia

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Calpinae

Higher classification
  
Noctuidae

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Family
  
Erebidae

Scientific name
  
Margana

Rank
  
Genus

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Similar
  
Rhesala, Butterflies and moths, Trigonodes, Noctuidae, Episparis

Egnasia is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

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Description

Palpi with second joint very long and reaching far above vertex of head. The third with a tuft of hair on the inner side. Antennae usually almost simple in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia moderately hairy. Fore wings with acute apex. The outer margin angled at middle. Hind wings with crenulate outer margin. Vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars.

Species

Some species of this genus are:

  • Egnasia accingalis Walker, 1858 (India)
  • Egnasia apicata Berio, 1956 (Congo)
  • Egnasia berioi Viette, 1954 (Madagascar)
  • Egnasia caduca swinhoe, 1892 (India)
  • Egnasia castanea Moore, 1882 (India)
  • Egnasia conifer Hampson, 1926 (Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Thailand)
  • Egnasia dimorfica Berio, 1956 (Congo)
  • Egnasia distorta Swinhoe, 1900 (Borneo, Sumatra)
  • Egnasia dolabrata Berio, 1958 (Madagascar)
  • Egnasia ephyrodalis Walker, 1858 (India, Bangladesh)
  • Egnasia fasciata (Moore, 1882) (India)
  • Egnasia hypomochla Fletcher D. S., 1963 (Congo, Rwanda)
  • Egnasia incurvata Gaede, 1940
  • Egnasia lioperas Prout A. E., 1922 (South Africa)
  • Egnasia macularia Mabille, 1900 (Madagascar)
  • Egnasia mesotypa Swinhoe, 1906 (India, Hong Kong)
  • Egnasia microsema Hampson, 1926 (Ghana)
  • Egnasia microtype Hampson, 1926. (Nigeria)
  • Egnasia mimetica Berio, 1956 (Congo)
  • Egnasia obscurata Mabille, 1898 (Madagascar)
  • Egnasia ochreivena Hampson, 1894 (India)
  • Egnasia overdijkinki Prout, 1932 (Borneo, Java, Peninsular Malaysia)
  • Egnasia participalis Walker, 1858 (India)
  • Egnasia polia Hampson, 1891 (India)
  • Egnasia rectilineata Swinhoe, 1890 (India)
  • Egnasia rufifusalis Hampson, 1926 (Cameroon)
  • Egnasia scoliogramma Prout A. E., 1921 [Congo)
  • Egnasia scotopasta Hampson, 1926 (Nigeria)
  • Egnasia sinuosa Moore, 1882 (India)
  • Egnasia sundana Kobes, 1983 (Borneo Sumatra, Thailand)
  • Egnasia trogocraspia Hampson, 1926 (Nigeria)
  • Egnasia tripuncta Swinhoe, 1890 (India)
  • Egnasia vicaria (Walker, 1866) (Congo to S.Africa, Kenya)
  • References

    Egnasia Wikipedia