Teracotona is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae from the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878.
Species Subgenus Teracotona Butler, 1878
Teracotona euprepia Hampson, 1900 Teracotona euprepia bicolor Toulgoët, 1980 Teracotona euprepioides Wichgraf, 1921 Teracotona pardalina Bartel, 1903 Teracotona quadripunctata Wichgraf, 1908 (=buryi Rothschild, 1910) Teracotona rhodophaea (Walker, ) Teracotona submaculata (Walker, 1855) Teracotona trifasciata Bartel, 1903
Subgenus Neoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009
Teracotona alicia (Hampson, 1911) Teracotona jacksoni (Rothschild, 1910) Teracotona kovtunovitchi Dubatolov, 2011 Teracotona murtafaa Wiltshire, 1980 Teracotona pallida Joicey & Talbot, 1924 Teracotona pitmanni (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona pitmani major (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona postalbida Gaede, 1926 Teracotona proditrix Berio, 1939 Teracotona pruinosa de Joannis, 1912 Teracotona translucens (Grünberg, 1907)
Subgenus Pseudoteracotona Dubatolov, 2009
Teracotona abyssinica (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona approximans (Rothschild, 1917) Teracotona clara Holland, 1892 Teracotona clara rubiginea(Toulgoët, 1977) Teracotona immaculata (Wichgraf, 1921) Teracotona melanocera (Hampson, 1920) Teracotona metaxantha (Hampson, 1920) Teracotona multistrigata Joicey & Talbot, 1924 Teracotona neumanni (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona seminigra (Hampson, 1905) Teracotona senegalensis (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona subapproximans (Rothschild, 1933) Teracotona subterminata (Hampson, 1901) Teracotona uhrikmeszarosi Szent-Ivany, 1942 Teracotona wittei (Debauche, 1942)
Teracotona sensu lato
Teracotona homeyeri Rothschild, 1910 Teracotona latifasciata Carcasson, 1965
Incorrectly placed species Teracotona mirabilis - transferred into Lithosiinae
References
, 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008–2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285–301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27). , 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009–2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125–135.