Abraxas, the magpie moths, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was first described by William Elford Leach in 1815.
Description
Palpi (extending forward) and roughly scaled. Hind tibia of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7, 8, 9 and 10, 11 stalked. Vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12, or apparently absent. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell.
Species
The genus includes the following species:
- Abraxas adilluminata <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas albiplaga <small>(Warren, 1894)</small>
- Abraxas albiquadrata <small>(Warren, 1897)</small>
- Abraxas antinebulosa <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas breueri <small>Stüning & Hausmann, 2002</small>
- Abraxas capitata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas celidota <small>Wehrli, 1931</small>
- Abraxas consputa <small>Bastelberger, 1909</small>
- Abraxas cupreilluminata <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas degener <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas disrupta <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas expectata <small>Warren, 1902</small>
- Abraxas flavimacula <small>(Warren, 1896)</small>
- Abraxas flavisinuata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas fletcheri <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas formosilluminata <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas fulvobasalis <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas gephyra <small>West, 1929</small>
- Abraxas grossulariata <small>(Linnaeus, 1758)</small> – magpie
- Abraxas illuminata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas incolorata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas intermedia <small>Warren, 1888</small>
- Abraxas interpunctata <small>Warren, 1905</small>
- Abraxas intervacuata <small>(Warren, 1896)</small>
- Abraxas invasata <small>Warren, 1897</small>
- Abraxas karafutonis <small>Matsumura, 1925</small>
- Abraxas labraria <small>Guenée, 1857</small>
- Abraxas latifasciata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas leucostola <small>Hampson, 1893</small>
- Abraxas martaria <small>Guenée, 1857</small>
- Abraxas membranacea <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas metamorpha <small>Warren, 1893</small>
- Abraxas miranda <small>Butler, 1878</small>
- Abraxas niphonibia <small>Wehrli, 1935</small>
- Abraxas notata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas pantaria <small>(Linnaeus, 1767)</small> – light magpie
- Abraxas parvimiranda <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas paucinotata <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas persimplex <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas picaria <small>Moore, [1868]</small>
- Abraxas placata <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas privata <small>Bastelberger, 1905</small>
- Abraxas punctifera <small>(Walker, [1865])</small>
- Abraxas pusilla <small>Butler, 1880</small>
- Abraxas satoi <small>Inoue, 1972</small>
- Abraxas sinopicaria <small>Wehrli, 1934</small>
- Abraxas sordida <small>Hampson, 1893</small>
- Abraxas sporocrossa <small>Turner, 1922</small>
- Abraxas stictotaenia <small>Wehrli, 1932</small>
- Abraxas stresemanni <small>Rothschild, 1915</small>
- Abraxas subhyalinata <small>Röber, 1891</small>
- Abraxas submartiaria <small>Wehrli, 1932</small>
- Abraxas suffusa <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas suspecta <small>(Warren, 1894)</small>
- Abraxas sylvata <small>(Scopoli, 1763)</small> – clouded magpie
- Abraxas symmetrica <small>Warren, 1894</small>
- Abraxas taiwanensis <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas tenellula <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas tenuisuffusa <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
- Abraxas triseriaria <small>Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]</small>
- Abraxas wilemani <small>Inoue, 1984</small>
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