Thalassodes

Thalassodes
File:Thalassodes immissaria.jpg
T. immissaria, Sri Lanka
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Tribe:	Hemitheini
Genus:	Thalassodes Guenée, 1857

Thalassodes is a genus of moths in the family Geometridae first described by Achille Guenée in 1857.

Description

Palpi with second joint clothed with hair and reaching the apex of the short frontal tuft. Third joint naked and porrect (extending forward). Antennae of male usually bipectinate (comb like on both sides) to two-thirds length. Hind tibia usually dilated with a fold containing a tuft of long hair. Forewings with veins 6, 7, 8, 9 and 10 stalked or vein 6 from cell. Hindwings with angled or produced outer margin to a point at vein 4.

Species

• Thalassodes minor Meyrick, 1886
• (Lower, 1893) Thalassodes chloropsis
• Meyrick, 1886 Thalassodes curiosa
• Swinhoe, 1902 Thalassodes depulsata
• Walker, 1861 Walker, 1861
• (Walker, 1861) Holloway, 1996
• Warren, 1903 Walker, 1861
• Holloway, 1996 Prout, 1933
• Holloway, 1996 Holloway, 1996
• Thalassodes pilaria Thalassodes veraria
• Thalassodes halioscia Thalassodes intaminata
• Thalassodes maipoensis Thalassodes opalina
• Guenée, 1857 Guenée, 1857
• Thalassodes dissepta Thalassodes dissista
• Thalassodes dissitoides Thalassodes dorsilinea
• Warren, 1912 Inoue, 1971
• Galsworthy, 1997 Butler 1880
• Guenée, 1857 Swinhoe, 1908
• Thalassodes viridifascia Thalassodes rhytiphorus
• Thalassodes sundissepta Thalassodes quadraria
• Thalassodes byrsopis Thalassodes immissaria
• Thalassodes linguissita Thalassodes opalinoides

References

• Hongxiang Han & Dayong Xue (2011). "Thalassodes and related taxa of emerald moths in China (Geometridae, Geometrinae)". Zootaxa. 3019:26-50.