Elusa is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
Eyes naked and without lashes. Proboscis well developed. Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint reaching vertex of head and roughly scaled. Third joint is short. Antennae of male bipectinated, where branches bent round and almost forming a cylinder just before the middle, where the shaft is contorted and the branches form a large hollow cup, after which they gradually diminish to apex. Thorax tuftless. Abdomen with dorsal tufts. Legs with dense hairy tibia. Hindlegs are clothed with very long hair to the end of tarsi. Forewings with non-crenulate cilia, where the inner margin lobed at base. There are long scaly tufts at outer angle.
Elusa affinis Rothschild, 1915Elusa alector Wileman & West, 1928Elusa antennata (Moore, 1882)Elusa binocula Hampson, 1911Elusa ceneusalis Walker, [1859]Elusa confusa Warren, 1913Elusa cyathicornis (Walker, 1862)Elusa diloba Hampson, 1909Elusa dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1906Elusa duplicata Warren, 1913Elusa flammans Warren, 1913Elusa ignea Warren, 1913Elusa incertans Bethune-Baker, 1906Elusa inventa Berio, 1977Elusa mediorufa Hampson, 1909Elusa oenolopha Turner, 1902Elusa orion Roepke, 1956Elusa penanorum Holloway, 1989Elusa peninsulata (Walker, 1865)Elusa pratti Bethune-Baker, 1906Elusa puncticeps (Walker, 1863)Elusa purpurea Warren, 1913Elusa pyrrhobaphes (Turner, 1943)Elusa semipecten Swinhoe, 1901Elusa simplex Warren, 1913Elusa subjecta (Walker, 1865)Elusa temburong Holloway, 1989Elusa ustula Hampson, 1909