{{short description|Genus of insects}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Hyperlopha_compactilis_(30024225370).jpg | image_alt = Photograph of ''Hyperlopha compactilis'' | image_caption = ''Hyperlopha compactilis'' | taxon = Hyperlopha | authority = Hampson, 1895 }}
'''''Hyperlopha''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1895.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=March 10, 2020 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/calpinae/hyperlopha/ |title=''Hyperlopha'' Hampson, 1895 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=285500 |accessdate=June 17, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=14206.0 |title=''Hyperlopha'' Hampson, 1895 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=June 17, 2020}}</ref>
==Description== Palpi with second joint reaching above vertex of head. Third joint long and naked. Antennae with long cilia and bristles in male. Thorax with a high sharp tuft found behind collar. Abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia slightly hairy. Forewings with arched costa. Apex acute and produced. Hindwings with rounded outer margin. Vein 5 from near middle of discocellulars.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1895 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== *''Hyperlopha amicta'' <small>Turner, 1903</small> northern Queensland *''Hyperlopha aridela'' <small>Turner, 1902</small> Queensland *''Hyperlopha bigoti'' <small>Berio, 1971</small> Indochina *''Hyperlopha catenata'' <small>Berio, 1971</small> Indochina *''Hyperlopha compactilis'' <small>(Swinhoe, 1890)</small> Myanmar, Peninsular Malaysia, Taiwan *''Hyperlopha cristifera'' <small>(Walker, 1865)</small> Ceylon, Andamans, Kei, Hiamalayas *''Hyperlopha crucifera'' <small>Holloway, 2005</small> Borneo *''Hyperlopha discontenta'' <small>(Walker, 1864)</small> Thailand, Peninsular Malaysia, Sumatra, Borneo *''Hyperlopha flavipennis'' <small>Holloway, 1976</small> Borneo, Peninsular Malaysia *''Hyperlopha didyana'' <small>Viette, 1968</small> Madagascar *''Hyperlopha flexuosa'' <small>Viette, 1968</small> Madagascar *''Hyperlopha ralambo'' <small>Viette, 1968</small> Madagascar *''Hyperlopha rectefasciata'' <small>(Kenrick, 1917)</small> Madagascar
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *Image: {{cite web |url=http://www1.ala.org.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23149 |title=''Hyperlopha aridela'' Turner, 1902 (Noctuidae: Catocalinae), Male - QLD, Kalpower State Forest, 20. Feb. 2000, J.C. Keast leg. (Keast Collection ANIC) |website=Australian Moths Online |publisher=CSIRO |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731093640/http://www1.ala.org.au/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=23149 |archive-date=July 31, 2018}}
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Category:Calpinae Category:Moth genera
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