{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Rhesala moestalis-25.jpg | image2 = Rhesala sp.jpg | taxon = Rhesala | authority = Walker, 1858 | synonyms = *''Hingula'' <small>Moore 1882</small> *''Magulaba'' <small>Walker 1866</small> *''Rimulia'' <small>Saalmuller 1891</small> *''Pyralomorpha'' <small>Rebel, 1917</small> }}
'''''Rhesala''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1858.<ref>{{cite web |last=Yu |first=Dicky Sick Ki |url=http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=85987296 |title=''Rhesala'' Walker 1858 |website=Home of Ichneumonoidea |publisher=Taxapad |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171210015749/http://www.taxapad.com/local.php?taxonidLC=85987296 |archive-date=December 10, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |editor-last=Savela |editor-first=Markku |date=June 1, 2020 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/rhesala/ |title=''Rhesala'' Walker, 1858 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 19, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{LepIndex |id=288316 |accessdate=June 19, 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=25647.0 |title=''Rhesala'' Walker, 1858 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=June 19, 2020}}</ref>
==Species== *''Rhesala albolunata'' <small>(Moore, 1882)</small> southern India *''Rhesala biagi'' <small>(Bethune-Baker, 1908)</small> New Guinea *''Rhesala cervina'' <small>(Moore, 1882)</small> Manipur *''Rhesala cineribasis'' <small>de Joannis, 1929</small> Vietnam *''Rhesala costiplaga'' <small>(Holland, 1900)</small> Buru *''Rhesala falcata'' <small>Holloway, 2005</small> Borneo *''Rhesala fusiformis'' <small>Holloway, 2005</small> Borneo, Singapore *''Rhesala goleta'' <small>(Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874)</small> Ghana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa *''Rhesala grisea'' <small>(Hampson, 1916)</small> Somalia *''Rhesala imparata'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> India (Nilgiris, Meghalaya, Manipuri, Kolkata), Sri Lanka, Buru, Celebes, Taiwan, Japan *''Rhesala inconcinnalis'' <small>(Walker, [1866])</small> Ceram, Amboina *''Rhesala irregularis'' <small>Holloway, 1979</small> New Caledonia, Fiji *''Rhesala moestalis'' <small>(Walker, [1866])</small> Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Gabon, Arabia, Sudan, Somalia, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Mozambique, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Angola, Namibia, South Africa, Comoros, Madagascar, Seychelles, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, New Guinea *''Rhesala nigricans'' <small>(Snellen, 1880)</small> Borneo, Sulawesi *''Rhesala nigriceps'' <small>(Hampson, 1895)</small> Simla, Poona, Bombay *''Rhesala nyasica'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> *''Rhesala punctisigna'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> Kenya
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last1=De Prins |first1=J. |last2=De Prins |first2=W. |name-list-style=amp |date=2017 |url=http://www.afromoths.net/genus/show/761980 |title=''Rhesala'' Walker, 1858 |website=Afromoths |accessdate=December 9, 2017}}
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Category:Calpinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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