Tirathaba
Encyclopedia
Tirathaba is a genus
of moth
s of the Pyralidae
family.
Genus
In biology, a genus is a low-level taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of living and fossil organisms, which is an example of definition by genus and differentia...
of moth
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s of the Pyralidae
Pyralidae
The Pyralidae or snout moths are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera...
family.
Species
- Tirathaba acyperella (Hampson in Ragonot, 1901)
- Tirathaba albifusa (Hampson, 1917)
- Tirathaba albilineata Whalley, 1964
- Tirathaba aperta (Strand, 1920)
- Tirathaba catharopa (Turner, 1937)
- Tirathaba cissinobaphes (Turner, 1906)
- Tirathaba citrinoides Whalley, 1964
- Tirathaba complexa (Butler, 1885)
- Tirathaba cyclophora (Hampson, 1917)
- Tirathaba epichthonia Meyrick, 1937
- Tirathaba expurgata Whalley, 1964
- Tirathaba fuscistriata Hampson, 1917
- Tirathaba grandinotella Hampson, 1898
- Tirathaba haematella Hampson in Ragonot, 1901
- Tirathaba irrufatella Ragonot, 1901
- Tirathaba leucostictalis (Lower, 1903)
- Tirathaba leucotephras Meyrick, 1936
- Tirathaba maculifera Hampson, 1917
- Tirathaba monoleuca Lower, 1894
- Tirathaba mundella Walker, 1864
- Tirathaba nitidalis Hampson, 1917
- Tirathaba pallida Whalley, 1964
- Tirathaba parasiticus (T. P. Lucas, 1898)
- Tirathaba pseudocomplana Hampson, 1917
- Tirathaba psolopasta (Turner, 1913)
- Tirathaba purpurella Hampson, 1917
- Tirathaba rosella Hampson, 1898
- Tirathaba rufivenaTirathaba rufivenaThe Coconut Spike Moth, Greater Coconut Spike Moth or Oil Palm Bunch Moth is a moth of the Pyralidae family...
(Walker, 1864) - Tirathaba ruptilinea (Walker, 1866)
- Tirathaba unicolorella (Hampson, 1896)
- Tirathaba xuthoptera (Turner, 1937)