Trabala is a genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae described by Francis Walker in 1856.
Description
Palpi somewhat short and slight. Antennae with branches shorter in females than in males. Mid and hind tibia with a minute terminal pair of spurs. Forewings are broad, with rounded outer margin, where the cell is open. The stalk of veins 9 and 10 very long. Hindwings with open cell. Veins 6 and 7 arising very near the base. Accessory costal veinlets are absent.
Species
Some species of this genus are:
- Trabala aethiopica <small>(Strand, 1912)</small> (from Congo/Eq.Guinea)
- Trabala bouraq <small>Holloway, 1987</small> (from Brunei)
- Trabala burchardii <small>(Dewitz, 1881)</small> (from Angola/Cameroon/Kenya)
- Trabala charon <small>Druce, 1910</small> (from Central Africa)
- Trabala ganesha <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Sundaland)
- Trabala garuda <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Borneo/Sumatra)
- Trabala gautama <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Malaysia/Borneo/Sumatra)
- Trabala hantu <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Borneo/Sumatra)
- Trabala irrorata <small>Moore, 1884</small> (from Sundaland/Philippines)
- Trabala krishna <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Sundaland)
- Trabala lambourni <small>Bethune-Baker, 1911</small> (from Congo/Nigeria)
- Trabala pallida <small>(Walker, 1855)</small> (from Sundaland/China)
- Trabala prasinophena <small>Tams, 1931</small> (from Congo)
- Trabala rotundapex <small>Holloway, 1976</small> (from Borneo)
- Trabala shiva <small>Roepke, 1951</small> (from Sundaland)
- Trabala sulphurea <small>(Kollar, 1848)</small> (from India)
- Trabala viridana <small>Joicey & Talbot, 1917</small> (from Sumatra/Borneo/Malaysia)
- Trabala vishnou <small>(Lefèbvre, 1827)</small> (Oriental, India to Taiwan)
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