Dinumma

Dinumma is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1858.[1][2][3]

Dinumma
Dinumma combusta
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Scoliopteryginae
Tribe: Anomini
Genus: Dinumma
Walker, 1858
Synonyms
  • Ortheaga Walker, 1865
  • Paralopha Bethune-Baker, 1908

Description

Palpi smoothly scaled and upturned. Second joint reaching just above vertex of head, and third joint moderate length. Antennae minutely ciliated. Thorax smoothly scaled. Abdomen with a series of dorsal tufts. Tibia moderately hair. Forewings of nearly even width throughout, the apex and outer margin rounded. Hindwings with vein 5 from lower angle of cell.[4]

Species
  • Dinumma deponens Walker, 1858 India, Thailand, China, Japan, Korea
  • Dinumma combusta (Walker, 1865) Sundaland
  • Dinumma hades Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
  • Dinumma inagnulata Hampson, 1902 Sikkim
  • Dinumma mediobrunnea Bethune-Baker, 1906 New Guinea
  • Dinumma oxygrapha (Snellen, 1880) Singapore, Borneo, Bali, Dammer, Kei, Philippines, Sulawesi
  • Dinumma placens Walker, 1858 Sri Lanka
  • Dinumma rubiginea (Bethune-Baker, 1908) New Guinea
  • Dinumma spiculata Holloway, 2005 Borneo
  • Dinumma stygia Hampson, 1926 New Guinea
  • Dinumma varians Butler, 1889 India (Himachal Pradesh)

References
  1. Savela, Markku (August 18, 2019). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Dinumma​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Dinumma Walker, 1858". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved June 22, 2020.
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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