Aethalopteryx is a genus of moths belonging to the family Cossidae.
Diagnosis
Aethalopteryx is distinguished from close relatives Trismelasmos <small>Schoorl, 1990</small>, Acosma <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>, Strigocossus <small>Houlbert, 1916</small> and Azygophleps <small>Hampson, 1892</small> by having cup-shaped antennae in both sexes, forewings with slight reticulated patterns and reduced arms in males gnathos and particularly genital structure of the females.
Description
Medium sized moths. Male and female antennae cup-shaped; forewing elongate with slight reticular pattern, often with a spot in the costal area and spots in the postdiscal area; hindwing with indistinct reticular pattern.
Distribution
Species are primarily found in east Africa with some distributed elsewhere in Africa or in the Arabian peninsula.
Species
- Aethalopteryx anikini <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx atrireta <small>(Hampson, 1910)</small>
- Aethalopteryx dictyotephra <small>(Clench, 1959)</small>
- Aethalopteryx diksami <small>Yakovlev & Saldaitis, 2010</small>
- Aethalopteryx elf <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx forsteri <small>(Clench, 1959)</small>
- Aethalopteryx gazelle <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx grandiplaga <small>(Gaede, 1930)</small>
- Aethalopteryx gyldenstolpei <small>(Aurivillius, 1925)</small>
- Aethalopteryx kisangani <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx masai <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx mesosticta <small>(Hampson in Poulton, 1916)</small>
- Aethalopteryx nilotica <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx obscurascens <small>(Gaede, 1930)</small>
- Aethalopteryx obsolete <small>(Gaede, 1930)</small>
- Aethalopteryx pindarus <small>(Fawcett, 1916)</small>
- Aethalopteryx politzari <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx rudloffi <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx simillima <small>(Hampson in Poulton, 1916)</small>
- Aethalopteryx squameus <small>(Distant, 1902)</small>
- Aethalopteryx steniptera <small>(Hampson in Poulton, 1916)</small>
- Aethalopteryx sulaki <small>Yakovlev, 2011</small>
- Aethalopteryx tristis <small>(Gaede, 1915)</small>
- Aethalopteryx wiltshirei <small>Yakovlev, 2009</small>
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