Euchaetes

Euchaetes
Euchaetes egle
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Phaegopterina
Genus:	Euchaetes Harris, 1841
Type species
Phalaena egle Drury, 1773
Synonyms
Stenophaea Hampson, 1901 Protomolis Hampson, 1901 Euchaetias Lyman, 1902

Euchaetes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.

Species

• Euchaetes albaticosta (Dyar, 1912)
• Euchaetes albicosta (Walker, 1855)
• Euchaetes antica (Walker, 1856)
• Euchaetes bicolor (Rothschild, 1935)
• Euchaetes bolteri (Stretch, 1885)
• Euchaetes castalla (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
• Euchaetes cressida (Dyar, 1913)
• Euchaetes egle (Drury, 1773) – milkweed tiger moth
• Euchaetes elegans (Stretch, 1874)
• Euchaetes expressa (H. Edwards, 1884)
• Euchaetes fusca (Rothschild, 1910)
• Euchaetes gigantea (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910)
• Euchaetes mitis Schaus, 1910
• Euchaetes pannycha (Dyar, 1918)
• Euchaetes perlevis (Grote, 1882)
• Euchaetes polingi (Cassino, 1928)
• Euchaetes promathides (Druce, 1894)
• Euchaetes psara (Dyar, 1907)
• Euchaetes rizoma (Schaus, 1896)
• Euchaetes zella (Dyar, 1903)

References

• Arctiidae genus list at Butterflies and Moths of the World of the Natural History Museum
• Savela, Markku. "Euchaetes Harris, 1841". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 16, 2017.

External links

• A monographic revision of Euchaetes Harris (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) Hendrickson, Heather Marie (2014)