Teracotona

Superregnum: Eukaryota
Regnum: Animalia
Subregnum: Eumetazoa
Cladus: Bilateria
Cladus: Nephrozoa
Cladus: Protostomia
Cladus: Ecdysozoa
Cladus: Panarthropoda
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Classis: Insecta
Cladus: Dicondylia
Subclassis: Pterygota
Cladus: Metapterygota
Infraclassis: Neoptera
Cladus: Eumetabola
Cladus: Endopterygota
Superordo: Panorpida
Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera
Ordo: Lepidoptera
Subordo: Glossata
Cladus: Coelolepida
Cladus: Myoglossata
Cladus: Neolepidoptera
Infraordo: Heteroneura
Cladus: Eulepidoptera
Cladus: Ditrysia
Cladus: Apoditrysia
Cladus: Obtectomera
Cladus: Macroheterocera
Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Teracotona
Subgenera: Neoteracotona – Pseudoteracotona – Teracotona

Not studied species: T. homeyeri – T. latifasciata

Not Arctiini: T. mirabilis
Name

Teracotona Butler, 1878

Type species: Aloa rhodophaea Walker, [1865] 1864
References

Butler, A.G., 1878: Description of new Lepidoptera of the group Bombycites, in the collection of the British Museum. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1878: 381–388.
de Toulgoët, H. 1980c: Description de nouvelles arctiides africaines (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (5e note). Revue française d'Entomologie (n.s.) 2(1): 1–9. Reference page.
Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301. Full article: [1].
Dubatolov, V.V. 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009–2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes. Atalanta, 42(1-4): 125–136. Full article (PDF).Reference page.

Teracotona is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.

Species
Subgenus Teracotona Butler, 1878

Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900
Teracotona euprepia bicolor Toulgoët, 1980
Teracotona euprepioides Wichgraf, 1921
Teracotona pardalina Bartel, 1903
Teracotona quadripunctata Wichgraf, 1908 (=buryi Rothschild, 1910)
Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, [1865])
Teracotona submaculata (Walker, 1855)
Teracotona trifasciata Bartel, 1903

Subgenus Neoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009

Teracotona alicia (Hampson, 1911)
Teracotona jacksoni (Rothschild, 1910)
Teracotona kovtunovitchi Dubatolov, 2011
Teracotona murtafaa Wiltshire, 1980
Teracotona pallida Joicey & Talbot, 1924
Teracotona pitmanni (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona pitmani major (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona postalbida Gaede, 1926
Teracotona proditrix Berio, 1939
Teracotona pruinosa de Joannis, 1912
Teracotona translucens (Grünberg, 1907)

Subgenus Pseudoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009

Teracotona abyssinica (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona approximans (Rothschild, 1917)
Teracotona clara Holland, 1892
Teracotona clara rubiginea(Toulgoët, 1977)
Teracotona immaculata (Wichgraf, 1921)
Teracotona melanocera (Hampson, 1920)
Teracotona metaxantha (Hampson, 1920)
Teracotona multistrigata Joicey & Talbot, 1924
Teracotona neumanni (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona seminigra (Hampson, 1905)
Teracotona senegalensis (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona subapproximans (Rothschild, 1933)
Teracotona subterminata (Hampson, 1901)
Teracotona uhrikmeszarosi Szent-Ivany, 1942
Teracotona wittei (Debauche, 1942)

Teracotona sensu lato

Teracotona homeyeri Rothschild, 1910
Teracotona latifasciata Carcasson, 1965

Incorrectly placed species

Teracotona mirabilis - transferred into Lithosiinae

References

Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008–2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285–301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009–2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125–135.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
Savela, Markku. "Teracotona Butler, 1878". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 21, 2019.