{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic_taxobox | image = Pl.6-20-Egnasia fasciata (Moore 1882) (Thyridospila).JPG | image_caption = ''Egnasia fasciata'' | taxon = Egnasia | authority = Walker, 1859 | type_species = ''Egnasia ephyrodalis'' | type_species_authority = Walker, 1858 | synonyms = *''Margana'' <small>Walker, 1866</small> *''Matella'' <small>Moore, 1885</small> *''Spectrophysa'' <small>Swinhoe, 1900</small> *''Talmala'' <small>Poole, 1989</small> *''Talmela'' <small>Nye, 1975</small> }} '''''Egnasia''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1859.
==Description== Palpi with second joint very long and reaching far above vertex of head. The third with a tuft of hair on the inner side. Antennae usually almost simple in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia moderately hairy. Forewings with acute apex. The outer margin angled at middle. Hindwings with crenulate (scalloped) outer margin. Vein 5 from below 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 |volume=Moths Volume III |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== Some species of this genus are: * ''Egnasia accingalis'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> (India) *''Egnasia apicata'' <small>Berio, 1956</small> (Congo) *''Egnasia berioi'' <small>Viette, 1954</small> (Madagascar) *''Egnasia caduca'' <small>swinhoe, 1892</small> (India) *''Egnasia castanea'' <small>Moore, 1882</small> (India) *''Egnasia conifer'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Borneo, Philippines, Sumatra, Thailand) *''Egnasia dimorfica'' <small>Berio, 1956</small> (Congo) *''Egnasia distorta'' <small>Swinhoe, 1900</small> (Borneo, Sumatra) *''Egnasia dolabrata'' <small>Berio, 1958</small> (Madagascar) *''Egnasia ephyrodalis'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> (India, Bangladesh) *''Egnasia fasciata'' <small>(Moore, 1882)</small> (India) *''Egnasia hypomochla'' <small>D. S. Fletcher, 1963</small> (Congo, Rwanda) *''Egnasia incurvata'' <small>Gaede, 1940</small> *''Egnasia lioperas'' <small>A. E. Prout, 1922</small> (South Africa) *''Egnasia macularia'' <small>Mabille, 1900</small> (Madagascar) *''Egnasia mesotypa'' <small>Swinhoe, 1906</small> (India, Hong Kong) *''Egnasia microsema'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Ghana) *''Egnasia microtype'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Nigeria) *''Egnasia mimetica'' <small>Berio, 1956</small> (Congo) *''Egnasia obscurata'' <small>Mabille, 1898</small> (Madagascar) *''Egnasia ocellata'' <small>(Moore, 1885)</small> (Sri Lanka) *''Egnasia ochreivena'' <small>Hampson, 1894</small> (India) *''Egnasia overdijkinki'' <small>Prout, 1932</small> (Borneo, Java, Peninsular Malaysia) *''Egnasia participalis'' <small>Walker, 1858</small> (India) *''Egnasia polia'' <small>Hampson, 1891</small> (India) *''Egnasia rectilineata'' <small>Swinhoe, 1890</small> (India) *''Egnasia rufifusalis'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Cameroon) *''Egnasia scoliogramma'' <small>A. E. Prout, 1921</small> (Congo) *''Egnasia scotopasta'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Nigeria) *''Egnasia sinuosa'' <small>Moore, 1882</small> (India) *''Egnasia sundana'' <small>Kobes, 1983</small> (Borneo Sumatra, Thailand) *''Egnasia trogocraspia'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> (Nigeria) *''Egnasia tripuncta'' <small>Swinhoe, 1890</small> (India) *''Egnasia vicaria'' <small>(Walker, 1866)</small> (Congo to South Africa, 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/760600 |title=''Egnasia'' Walker, 1859 |website=Afromoths |accessdate=March 22, 2018}} *[http://www.mothsofborneo.com/part-15-16/episparis/episparis_8_3.php Holloway: ''The Moths of Borneo''] *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Calpinae Category:Moth genera Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)
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