Teracotona

Teracotona is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.

Species

Subgenus Teracotona Butler, 1878

• Teracotona euprepia <small>Hampson, 1900</small>
• Teracotona euprepia bicolor <small>Toulgoët, 1980</small>
• Teracotona euprepioides <small>Wichgraf, 1921</small>
• Teracotona pardalina <small>Bartel, 1903</small>
• Teracotona quadripunctata <small>Wichgraf, 1908</small> (=buryi <small>Rothschild, 1910</small>)
• Teracotona rhodophaea <small>(Walker, [1865])</small>
• Teracotona submaculata <small>(Walker, 1855)</small>
• Teracotona trifasciata <small>Bartel, 1903</small>

Subgenus Neoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009

• Teracotona alicia <small>(Hampson, 1911)</small>
• Teracotona jacksoni <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
• Teracotona kovtunovitchi <small>Dubatolov, 2011</small>
• Teracotona murtafaa <small>Wiltshire, 1980</small>
• Teracotona pallida <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1924</small>
• Teracotona pitmanni <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona pitmani major <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona postalbida <small>Gaede, 1926</small>
• Teracotona proditrix <small>Berio, 1939</small>
• Teracotona pruinosa <small>de Joannis, 1912</small>
• Teracotona translucens <small>(Grünberg, 1907)</small>

Subgenus Pseudoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009

• Teracotona abyssinica <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona approximans <small>(Rothschild, 1917)</small>
• Teracotona clara <small>Holland, 1892</small>
• Teracotona clara rubiginea<small>(Toulgoët, 1977)</small>
• Teracotona immaculata <small>(Wichgraf, 1921)</small>
• Teracotona melanocera <small>(Hampson, 1920)</small>
• Teracotona metaxantha <small>(Hampson, 1920)</small>
• Teracotona multistrigata <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1924</small>
• Teracotona neumanni <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona seminigra <small>(Hampson, 1905)</small>
• Teracotona senegalensis <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona subapproximans <small>(Rothschild, 1933)</small>
• Teracotona subterminata <small>(Hampson, 1901)</small>
• Teracotona uhrikmeszarosi <small>Szent-Ivany, 1942</small>
• Teracotona wittei <small>(Debauche, 1942)</small>

Teracotona sensu lato

• Teracotona homeyeri <small>Rothschild, 1910</small>
• Teracotona latifasciata <small>Carcasson, 1965</small>

Incorrectly placed species

• Teracotona mirabilis - transferred into Lithosiinae

References

• , 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008–2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285–301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
• , 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009–2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125–135.