• Source: Aroa

      • Aroa is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. Species are distributed in South Africa, China, throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Java.


      Description


      They are diurnal fliers. The genus differs from Orgyia due to much longer palpi and less-hairy body. Third joint prominent. Legs are less hairy. Female has fully developed wings. Antennae branches are shorter than in male.


      Species


      Some species of this genus are:

      Aroa abalia Collenette, 1949 western Java
      Aroa achrodisca Hampson, 1910 Senegal
      Aroa anthora (Felder, 1874)
      Aroa asthenes Collenette, 1938 Palawan
      Aroa atrella Hampson, [1893] Sikkim, Assam
      Aroa atrescens Hampson, 1897 Khasia Hills
      Aroa callista (Collenette, 1933) Kivu
      Aroa campbelli Hampson, 1905 India (Chennai)
      Aroa clara Swinhoe, 1885 Bombay
      Aroa cometaris Butler, 1887 Solomons
      Aroa danva Schaus & Clements, 1893 Sierra Leone
      Aroa difficilis Walker, 1855 southern Africa
      Aroa discalis Walker, 1855 southern Africa
      Aroa eugonia Collenette, 1953 Ivory Coast
      Aroa gyroptera Collenette, 1938 Philippines (Luzon)
      Aroa incerta Rogenhofer, 1891 Kenya
      Aroa interrogationis Collenette, 1938 Uganda
      Aroa kambaiti Collenette, 1960 Myanmar
      Aroa leonensis Hampson, 1910 Sierra Leone
      Aroa luteifascia (Hampson, 1895) Myanmar
      Aroa major Hampson, [1893] Sri Lanka
      Aroa maxima Hampson, [1893] Sri Lanka
      Aroa melanoleuca Hampson, 1905 Angola
      Aroa melaxantha (Walker, 1865) southern Africa
      Aroa nepalensis Daniel, 1961 Nepal
      Aroa nigripicta Holland, 1893 western Africa
      Aroa ochripicta Moore, 1879 Hong Kong
      Aroa ochrota (Hampson, 1904) Kerala
      Aroa pampoecila Collenette, 1930 Tanganyika
      Aroa plana (Walker, 1855) northern India
      Aroa postfusca Gaede, 1932 Yunnan
      Aroa pyrrhochroma Walker, 1865 Sikkim, Bhutan, India
      Aroa quadrimaculata (Janse, 1915) Zimbabwe
      Aroa quadriplagata Pagenstecher, 1903 north-eastern Africa
      Aroa risoria Swinhoe, 1903 Java
      Aroa sagrara Swinhoe, 1885
      Aroa scytodes Collenette, 1932 Malaysia
      Aroa sienna Hampson, 1891 Nilgiris
      Aroa simplex (Walker, 1865) southern India
      Aroa socrus (Geyer, 1837) Java
      Aroa subnotata (Walker, 1855) Sri Lanka
      Aroa tomisa Druce, 1896 eastern Africa
      Aroa vosseleri (Grünberg, 1907) Tanzania
      Aroa xerampelina (Swinhoe, 1885) Pune
      Aroa yokoae Bethune-Baker, 1927 Cameroon


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