Aroa is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. Species are distributed in South Africa, China, throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Java.
Description
They are diurnal fliers. The genus differs from Orgyia due to much longer palpi and less-hairy body. Third joint prominent. Legs are less hairy. Female has fully developed wings. Antennae branches are shorter than in male.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
- Aroa abalia <small>Collenette, 1949</small> western Java
- Aroa achrodisca <small>Hampson, 1910</small> Senegal
- Aroa anthora <small>(Felder, 1874)</small>
- Aroa asthenes <small>Collenette, 1938</small> Palawan
- Aroa atrella <small>Hampson, [1893]</small> Sikkim, Assam
- Aroa atrescens <small>Hampson, 1897</small> Khasia Hills
- Aroa callista <small>(Collenette, 1933)</small> Kivu
- Aroa campbelli <small>Hampson, 1905</small> India (Chennai)
- Aroa clara <small>Swinhoe, 1885</small> Bombay
- Aroa cometaris <small>Butler, 1887</small> Solomons
- Aroa danva <small>Schaus & Clements, 1893</small> Sierra Leone
- Aroa difficilis <small>Walker, 1855</small> southern Africa
- Aroa discalis <small>Walker, 1855</small> southern Africa
- Aroa eugonia <small>Collenette, 1953</small> Ivory Coast
- Aroa gyroptera <small>Collenette, 1938</small> Philippines (Luzon)
- Aroa incerta <small>Rogenhofer, 1891</small> Kenya
- Aroa interrogationis <small>Collenette, 1938</small> Uganda
- Aroa kambaiti <small>Collenette, 1960</small> Myanmar
- Aroa leonensis <small>Hampson, 1910</small> Sierra Leone
- Aroa luteifascia <small>(Hampson, 1895)</small> Myanmar
- Aroa major <small>Hampson, [1893]</small> Sri Lanka
- Aroa maxima <small>Hampson, [1893]</small> Sri Lanka
- Aroa melanoleuca <small>Hampson, 1905</small> Angola
- Aroa melaxantha <small>(Walker, 1865)</small> southern Africa
- Aroa nepalensis <small>Daniel, 1961</small> Nepal
- Aroa nigripicta <small>Holland, 1893</small> western Africa
- Aroa ochripicta <small>Moore, 1879</small> Hong Kong
- Aroa ochrota <small>(Hampson, 1904)</small> Kerala
- Aroa pampoecila <small>Collenette, 1930</small> Tanganyika
- Aroa plana <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> northern India
- Aroa postfusca <small>Gaede, 1932</small> Yunnan
- Aroa pyrrhochroma <small>Walker, 1865</small> Sikkim, Bhutan, India
- Aroa quadrimaculata <small>(Janse, 1915)</small> Zimbabwe
- Aroa quadriplagata <small>Pagenstecher, 1903</small> north-eastern Africa
- Aroa risoria <small>Swinhoe, 1903</small> Java
- Aroa sagrara <small>Swinhoe, 1885</small>
- Aroa scytodes <small>Collenette, 1932</small> Malaysia
- Aroa sienna <small>Hampson, 1891</small> Nilgiris
- Aroa simplex <small>(Walker, 1865)</small> southern India
- Aroa socrus <small>(Geyer, 1837)</small> Java
- Aroa subnotata <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> Sri Lanka
- Aroa tomisa <small>Druce, 1896</small> eastern Africa
- Aroa vosseleri <small>(Grünberg, 1907)</small> Tanzania
- Aroa xerampelina <small>(Swinhoe, 1885)</small> Pune
- Aroa yokoae <small>Bethune-Baker, 1927</small> Cameroon
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