Catada

Catada
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Hypeninae
Genus:	Catada Walker, [1859]

Catada is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was first described by Francis Walker in 1859.

Description

Palpi slender, sickle shaped and naked. Second joint reaching far above vertex of head and tapering to extremity. Third joint long and slender. Antennae of male somewhat thickened and flattened or minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Forewings with vein 7 from upper angle of cell. Hindwings with vein 5 from middle of discocellulars, where veins 6 and 7 usually arise from cell.

Species

Some species of this genus are:

• Catada agassizi Holloway, 2008
• Catada antipodalis (Holland, 1900)
• Catada auchja Lödl, 2002
• Catada bellaria Lödl & Paumkirchner, 2001
• Catada bipartita (Moore, 1882)
• Catada canaliferalis (Moore, 1877)
• Catada charalis Swinhoe, 1900
• Catada cornesi Lödl, 2001
• Catada dahlioides Rothschild, 1915
• Catada dichroana (Viette, 1958)
• Catada griseomarginalis (Rothschild, 1915)
• Catada ja Lödl, 2001
• Catada janalis (Schaus, 1893)
• Catada ndalla Bethune-Baker, 1911
• Catada nebrida Holloway, 2008
• Catada obscura de Joannis, 1906
• Catada phaeopasta Hampson, 1909
• Catada philemonalis (Walker, 1859)
• Catada psychis Lödl & Paumkirchner, 2001
• Catada purpureotincta Hampson, 1895
• Catada rubricaea Schultze, 1907
• Catada rufula Holloway, 2008
• Catada transversalis (Moore, 1877)
• Catada vagalis Walker, 1859

References

• Lödl, Martin (1999). "Redescription of Catada vagalis (Walker, [1859] 1858) and some notes on the genus Catada Walker, (1859) 1858 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Hypeninae)". Quadrifina. 2: 137–144.