Phazaca

Phazaca is a genus of moths in the family Uraniidae first described by Walker in 1863.

Phazaca
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Uraniidae
Subfamily:
Epipleminae
Genus:
Phazaca

Walker, 1863
Synonyms
  • Dirades Walker, 1866
  • Lobogethes Warren, 1896
  • Diradopsis Warren, 1898
  • Homoplexis Warren, 1907
  • Balantiucha Turner, 1911

Description

Palpi upturned, reaching vertex of head. Antennae thickened and flattened in male. Forewings broad. The outer margin evenly curved. Vein 5 from below the upper angle of cell and veins 6,7 and 8,9 stalked. vein 10 from cell. Hindwings usually with the outer margin produced to points at veins 4 and 7, slightly developed in male. Vein 5 from the middle of discocellulars. Veins 6 and 7 from angle of cell or shortly stalked. Male with a fold on inner area containing a tuft of long hair, veins 1b and 2 being distorted. Wings held more or less apart in repose.[1]

Species
  • Phazaca acutilinea (Warren, 1897)
  • Phazaca alikangensis (Strand, 1917)
  • Phazaca cesena (Swinhoe, 1902)
  • Phazaca cesenaleuca Holloway, 1998
  • Phazaca conifera (Moore, 1887)
  • Phazaca coniferoides Holloway, 1998
  • Phazaca cyclocrossa (Turner, 1926)
  • Phazaca cythera (Swinhoe, 1902)
  • Phazaca decorata (Warren, 1898)
  • Phazaca erosioides Walker, 1863
  • Phazaca interrupta (Warren, 1896)
  • Phazaca kellersi Tams, 1935 (from Samoa)
  • Phazaca leucocephala (Walker, 1863)
  • Phazaca leucocera (Hampson, 1891)
  • Phazaca lugens (Warren, 1897)
  • Phazaca monticesena Holloway, 1998
  • Phazaca mutans (Butler, 1887)
  • Phazaca perfallax (Warren, 1898)
  • Phazaca planimargo (Warren, 1906)
  • Phazaca rhombifera (Warren, 1897)
  • Phazaca stolida (Butler, 1886)
  • Phazaca theclata (Guenée, 1857)
  • Phazaca unicauda (Dudgeon, 1905)
  • Phazaca unicaudoides Holloway, 1998

References
  1. Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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