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Rhesala is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1858.

Species

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyErebidae

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
11
Family
Erebidae
Collections
USNM, GUAM, NHMUK
Recorded in
Uganda, Guam

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Rhesala is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1858.

==Species== Rhesala albolunata (Moore, 1882) southern India Rhesala biagi (Bethune-Baker, 1908) New Guinea Rhesala cervina (Moore, 1882) Manipur Rhesala cineribasis de Joannis, 1929 Vietnam Rhesala costiplaga (Holland, 1900) Buru Rhesala falcata Holloway, 2005 Borneo Rhesala fusiformis Holloway, 2005 Borneo, Singapore Rhesala goleta (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) Ghana, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa Rhesala grisea (Hampson, 1916) Somalia Rhesala imparata Walker, 1858 India (Nilgiris, Meghalaya, Manipuri, Kolkata), Sri Lanka, Buru, Celebes, Taiwan, Japan Rhesala inconcinnalis (Walker, [1866]) Ceram, Amboina Rhesala irregularis Holloway, 1979 New Caledonia, Fiji Rhesala moestalis (Walker, [1866]) 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 (Snellen, 1880) Borneo, Sulawesi Rhesala nigriceps (Hampson, 1895) Simla, Poona, Bombay Rhesala nyasica Hampson, 1926 Rhesala punctisigna Hampson, 1926 Kenya

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