Nicetosoma
Encyclopedia
Nicetosoma is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae
from eastern Sundaland
, from Sulawesi
to New Guinea
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Arctiidae
Arctiidae is a large and diverse family of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species. This family includes the groups commonly known as tiger moths , which usually have bright colours, footmen , lichen moths and wasp moths...
from eastern Sundaland
Sundaland
Sundaland is a biogeographical region of Southeastern Asia which encompasses the areas of the Asian continental shelf that was exposed during the last ice age. It included the Malay Peninsula on the Asian mainland, as well as the large islands of Borneo, Java, and Sumatra and their surrounding...
, from Sulawesi
Sulawesi
Sulawesi is one of the four larger Sunda Islands of Indonesia and is situated between Borneo and the Maluku Islands. In Indonesia, only Sumatra, Borneo, and Papua are larger in territory, and only Java and Sumatra have larger Indonesian populations.- Etymology :The Portuguese were the first to...
to New Guinea
New Guinea
New Guinea is the world's second largest island, after Greenland, covering a land area of 786,000 km2. Located in the southwest Pacific Ocean, it lies geographically to the east of the Malay Archipelago, with which it is sometimes included as part of a greater Indo-Australian Archipelago...
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Species
- Nicetosoma eogena (Walker, [1865])
- Nycetosoma hyporhoda (Butler, 1882)
- Nicetosoma inexpectata (Rothschild, 1933)
- Nicetosoma meforensis de Vos, 2011
- Nicetosoma niceta (Stoll, 1782)
- Nicetosoma papuana (Rothschild, 1910)
- Nicetosoma saturata (Rothschild, 1910)
- Nicetosoma sulphurata de Vos, 2011
- Nicetosoma semirosea (Butler, 1887)1