# Amsacta

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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
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| image = Erebid Moth (Amsacta grammiphlebia) (16004692633).jpg
| image_caption = ''Amsacta grammiphlebia''
| taxon = Amsacta
| authority = [Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), 1855
| type_species = ''Amsacta marginalis''
| type_species_authority = Walker, 1855
}}

'''''Amsacta''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [tiger moths](/source/Arctiinae_(moth)) in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae) erected by [Francis Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)) in 1855. The genus contains several species that need a review.

== Species congeneric to the type species ==
* ''[Amsacta fuscosa](/source/Amsacta_fuscosa)'' <small>(Bartel, 1903)</small>
* ''[Amsacta latimarginalis](/source/Amsacta_latimarginalis)'' <small>Rothschild, 1933</small>
* ''[Amsacta marginalis](/source/Amsacta_marginalis)'' <small>Walker, 1855</small>

=== ''Amsacta sensu lato'' ===
* ''[Amsacta aureolimbata](/source/Amsacta_aureolimbata)'' <small>Rothschild, 1910</small>
* ''[Amsacta duberneti](/source/Amsacta_duberneti)'' <small>Toulgoët, 1968</small>
* ''[Amsacta flavicostata](/source/Amsacta_flavicostata)'' <small>(Gaede, 1916)</small>
* ''[Amsacta grammiphlebia](/source/Amsacta_grammiphlebia)'' <small>Hampson, 1901</small>
* ''[Amsacta moloneyi](/source/Amsacta_moloneyi)'' <small>Druce, 1887</small>
* ''[Amsacta nigrisignata](/source/Amsacta_nigrisignata)'' <small>Gaede, 1923</small>
* ''[Amsacta nivea](/source/Amsacta_nivea)'' <small>Hampson, 1916</small>
* ''[Amsacta paolii](/source/Amsacta_paolii)'' <small>Berio, 1936</small>

==References==
*{{cite journal |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |date=2023 |publisher=Natural History Museum, London|doi=10.5519/s93616qw }}

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Category:Spilosomina
Category:Noctuoidea genera
Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)

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