Plusiodonta is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.
Description Palpi upturned, where the second joint roughly scaled and reaching vertex of head or above it. Thorax and abdomen slender without tufts. Forewings with somewhat acute apex. The outer margin more or less angled at vein 4. Inner margin with tufts of scales at center and outer angle, the margin being excised between them. Legs smoothly scaled. Antennae bipectinated in male. Larva with two pairs of abdominal prolegs.
Species Plusiodonta aborta Dognin, 1910 Plusiodonta achalcea Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta amado Barnes, 1907 (syn: Plusiodonta suffusa Hill, 1924) Plusiodonta arctipennis Butler, 1886 Plusiodonta auripicta Moore, 1882 Plusiodonta basirhabdota Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta casta Butler, 1878 Plusiodonta chalcomera Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta clavifera Walker, 1868 Plusiodonta cobaltina Viette, 1956 Plusiodonta coelonota Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844 Plusiodonta commoda Walker, 1865 Plusiodonta compressipalpis Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 – moonseed moth Plusiodonta cupristria Kaye, 1922 Plusiodonta dimorpha Robinson, 1975 Plusiodonta effulgens Edwards, 1884 Plusiodonta euchalcia Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta excavata Guenée, 1862 Plusiodonta gueneei Viette, 1968 Plusiodonta incitans Walker, 1857 Plusiodonta ionochrota Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta macra Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta malagasy Viette, 1968 Plusiodonta megista Hampson, 1926 Plusiodonta miranda Schaus, 1911 Plusiodonta multicolora Bethune-Baker, 1906 Plusiodonta natalensis Walker, 1865 Plusiodonta nictites Hampson, 1902 Plusiodonta nitissima Schaus, 1911 Plusiodonta repellens Walker, 1857 Plusiodonta speciosissima Holland, 1894 Plusiodonta stimulans Walker, 1857 Plusiodonta theresae Holloway, 1979 Plusiodonta thomae Guenée in Boisduval and Guenée, 1852 Plusiodonta tripuncta Bethune-Baker, 1906 Plusiodonta wahlbergi Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
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