Pterogonia

Pterogonia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Nolidae
Subfamily:	Chloephorinae
Genus:	Pterogonia; Swinhoe, 1891

Pterogonia is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae described by Swinhoe in 1891.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned and reaching above a sharp frontal tuft. Forewings with straight costa. Outer margin angled at vein 3. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an areole. The retinaculum is bar-shaped in male. Hindwings with vein 8 anastomosing with vein 7 to middle of cell. Vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.[1]

Species

Pterogonia aurigutta (Walker, 1858)
Pterogonia cardinalis Holloway, 1976
Pterogonia cassidata Warren, 1916
Pterogonia episcopalis Swinhoe, 1891
Pterogonia nubes (Hampson, 1893)

References

Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Savela, Markku. "Pterogonia Swinhoe, 1891". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 22, 2019.
Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pterogonia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 12, 2018.

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[1] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.