Orgyiini

The Orgyiini are a tribe of tussock moths of the family Erebidae. The tribe was described by Wallengren in 1861.

Orgyiini
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Lymantriinae
Tribe: Orgyiini
Wallengren, 1861

Description

Caterpillars of the group have brushes of hairs on the top of abdominal segments 1 (adjacent to the thorax), 2, 3, 4, and 8 and pencils of hairs projected forward from the sides of the head.[1]

Genera

The tribe includes the following genera. This list may be incomplete.

gollark: Minoteaur is also good and sort of exists.
gollark: (EXCEPT AS PART OF THE INDENT CHARACTER REPERTOIRE)
gollark: I HAVE SPUAMAI I DON'T NEED TABS
gollark: Why is nobody using my breakthrough?
gollark: I solved indentation SO LONG AGO.

References

  1. Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Tribe Orgyiini". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 26 November 2014.


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