Abraxas (moth)

Short description: Genus of geometer moths

Abraxas

Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Family:  | Geometridae
Tribe:  | Abraxini
Genus:  | Abraxas
Leach, 1815
Synonyms

* Spilote Hübner, [1806]
* Spilota Hübner, 1818
* Zerene Treitschke, 1825
* Calospilos Hübner, [1825]
* Callispilus Agassiz, 1847
* Potera Moore, [1879]
* Omophyseta Warren, 1894
* Silabraxas Swinhoe, 1900
* Chooreechillum Lucas, 1901
* Dextridens Wehrli, 1934
* Isostictia Wehrli, 1934
* Diceratodesia Wehrli, 1935
* Mesohypoleuca Wehrli, 1935
* Rhabdotaedoeagus Wehrli, 1935
* Spinuncus Wehrli, 1935
* Trimeresia Wehrli, 1935

Abraxas, the magpie moths, is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae. It was first described by William Elford Leach in 1815.

## Contents

* 1 Description
* 2 Species
* 3 References
* 4 External links

## Description

Palpi porrect (extending forward) and roughly scaled. Hind tibia of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7, 8, 9 and 10, 11 stalked. Vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12, or apparently absent. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell.[1]

## Species

The genus includes the following species:

* Abraxas adilluminata Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas albiplaga (Warren, 1894)
* Abraxas albiquadrata (Warren, 1897)
* Abraxas antinebulosa Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas breueri Stüning & Hausmann, 2002
* Abraxas capitata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas celidota Wehrli, 1931
* Abraxas consputa Bastelberger, 1909
* Abraxas cupreilluminata Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas degener Warren, 1894
* Abraxas disrupta Warren, 1894
* Abraxas expectata Warren, 1902
* Abraxas flavimacula (Warren, 1896)
* Abraxas flavisinuata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas fletcheri Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas formosilluminata Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas fulvobasalis Warren, 1894
* Abraxas gephyra West, 1929
* Abraxas grossulariata (Linnaeus, 1758) - magpie
* Abraxas illuminata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas incolorata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas intermedia Warren, 1888
* Abraxas interpunctata Warren, 1905
* Abraxas intervacuata (Warren, 1896)
* Abraxas invasata Warren, 1897
* Abraxas karafutonis Matsumura, 1925
* Abraxas labraria Guenée, 1857
* Abraxas latifasciata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas leucostola Hampson, 1893
* Abraxas martaria Guenée, 1857
* Abraxas membranacea Warren, 1894
* Abraxas metamorpha Warren, 1893
* Abraxas miranda Butler, 1878
* Abraxas niphonibia Wehrli, 1935
* Abraxas notata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas pantaria (Linnaeus, 1767) - light magpie
* Abraxas parvimiranda Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas paucinotata Warren, 1894
* Abraxas persimplex Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas picaria Moore, [1868]
* Abraxas placata Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas privata Bastelberger, 1905
* Abraxas punctifera (Walker, [1865])
* Abraxas pusilla Butler, 1880
* Abraxas satoi Inoue, 1972
* Abraxas sinopicaria Wehrli, 1934
* Abraxas sordida Hampson, 1893
* Abraxas sporocrossa Turner, 1922
* Abraxas stictotaenia Wehrli, 1932
* Abraxas stresemanni Rothschild, 1915
* Abraxas subhyalinata Röber, 1891
* Abraxas submartiaria Wehrli, 1932
* Abraxas suffusa Warren, 1894
* Abraxas suspecta (Warren, 1894)
* Abraxas sylvata (Scopoli, 1763) - clouded magpie
* Abraxas symmetrica Warren, 1894
* Abraxas taiwanensis Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas tenellula Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas tenuisuffusa Inoue, 1984
* Abraxas triseriaria Herrich-Schäffer, [1855]
* Abraxas wilemani Inoue, 1984

## References

1. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis. https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up.

* Savela, Markku. "Abraxas Leach, [1815"]. http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/geometroidea/geometridae/ennominae/abraxas/.

## External links

Wikidata ☰ Q2056201 entry

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