Plusiodonta

{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Plusiodonta | image = Plusiodonta excavata (Guen%C3%A9e, 1862).jpg | image_caption = ''Plusiodonta excavata'' | authority = Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852 | synonyms = *''Gadera'' Walker, [1858] *''Deva'' Walker, [1858] *''Odontina'' Guenée, 1862 *''Tafalla'' Walker, 1869 *''Tinnodoa'' Nye, 1975 }}

'''''Plusiodonta''''' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |date=July 5, 2019 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/calpinae/plusiodonta/ |title=''Plusiodonta'' Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 9, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=287836 |accessdate=June 9, 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=8170.0 |title=''Delocoma'' Swinhoe, 1905 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=June 9, 2020}}</ref>

==Description== Palpi upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>

==Species== * ''Plusiodonta aborta'' Dognin, 1910 * ''Plusiodonta achalcea'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta amado'' Barnes, 1907 (syn: ''Plusiodonta suffusa'' Hill, 1924) * ''Plusiodonta arctipennis'' Butler, 1886 * ''Plusiodonta auripicta'' Moore, 1882 * ''Plusiodonta basirhabdota'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta casta'' Butler, 1878 * ''Plusiodonta chalcomera'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta clavifera'' Walker, 1868 * ''Plusiodonta cobaltina'' Viette, 1956 * ''Plusiodonta coelonota'' Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844 * ''Plusiodonta commoda'' Walker, 1865 * ''Plusiodonta compressipalpis'' Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 – moonseed moth * ''Plusiodonta cupristria'' Kaye, 1922 * ''Plusiodonta dimorpha'' Robinson, 1975 * ''Plusiodonta effulgens'' Edwards, 1884 * ''Plusiodonta euchalcia'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta excavata'' Guenée, 1862 * ''Plusiodonta gueneei'' Viette, 1968 * ''Plusiodonta incitans'' Walker, 1857 * ''Plusiodonta ionochrota'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta macra'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta malagasy'' Viette, 1968 * ''Plusiodonta megista'' Hampson, 1926 * ''Plusiodonta miranda'' Schaus, 1911 * ''Plusiodonta multicolora'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * ''Plusiodonta natalensis'' Walker, 1865 * ''Plusiodonta nictites'' Hampson, 1902 * ''Plusiodonta nitissima'' Schaus, 1911 * ''Plusiodonta repellens'' Walker, 1857 * ''Plusiodonta speciosissima'' Holland, 1894 * ''Plusiodonta stimulans'' Walker, 1857 * ''Plusiodonta theresae'' Holloway, 1979 * ''Plusiodonta thomae'' Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 * ''Plusiodonta tripuncta'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 * ''Plusiodonta wahlbergi'' Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874

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Category:Calpini Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Achille Guenée