Mosopia

Mosopia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Noctuidae
Genus:	Mosopia
Type species
Mosopia megaspila Francis Walker. 1866
Species
Mosopia megaspila Mosopia magniplaga Mosopia eudoxusalis Mosopia cassiusalis[1]

Mosopia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family. It is found in south-east Asia, including Thailand, Borneo and Malaysia.^[2] The genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 from a specimen in the British Museum. The specimen Walker describes was from Penang in Malaysia.^[3]

Walker gave Mosopia megaspila as a type species. This species has a wingspan of 39 millimetres (1.5 in) with a large distinctive black spot in the middle of each forewings (hence the name megaspila, which means "large spotted"). There are three other species classified under the Mosopia genus.^[4]

References

1. The last is disputed and was synonymized with M. eudoxusalis by Robert Poole in 1989. See Lödl's article
2. "Herminiinae". Digital Moths of Asia.
3. Walker, Francis (1866). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum. Part XXXIV. London: Edward Newman. pp. 1187–1188. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011.
4. Lödl, M. (2002). "Notes on the genus Mosopia WALKER, [1866] 1865 with redescription of the type-species M. megaspila WALKER, [1866] 1865 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Herminiinae)" (PDF). Quadrifina. Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. 5: 21–26. Retrieved 20 Sep 2011.