Digama is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae described by Frederic Moore in 1858. It is distributed in South Africa, China, throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar and Australia.
Taxonomy The genus was formerly placed in the Arctiidae and the Noctuidae by different authors.
Description Palpi upturned with second joint reaching vertex of head and long third joint. Forewings square and rather short. Vein 5 from just above lower angle of cell. Vein 6 from just below the upper angle. Veins 7 and 10 from a short areole. Hindwings with vein 5 from above lower angle of cell. Veins 6 and 7 are stalked.
Species
Digama abietis Leech, 1889 Digama africana Swinhoe, 1907 Digama aganais Felder, 1874 Digama budonga Bethume-Baker, 1913 Digama burmana Hampson, 1892 Digama costimacula Swinhoe, 1907 Digama culta Hübner, 1825 Digama daressalamica Strand, 1911 Digama fasciata Butler, 1877 Digama hearseyana Moore, 1859 Digama insulana Felder, 1868 Digama lithosioides Swinhoe, 1907 Digama malgassica Toulgoët, 1954 Digama marchalii Guerin, 1843 Digama marmorea Butler, 1877 Digama meridionalis Swinhoe, 1907 Digama ostentata Distant, 1899 Digama pandaensis Romieux, 1935 Digama plicata Pinhey, 1952 Digama rileyi Kiriakoff, 1958 Digama sagittata Gaede, 1926 Digama septempuncta Hampson, 1910 Digama serratula Talbot, 1932 Digama sinuosa Hampson, 1905 Digama spilosoma Felder, 1874 Digama spilosomoides Walker, 1865 Digama strabonis Hampson, 1910
References
Digama at the Natural History Museum Butterflies and Moths of the World project