Aroa is a genus of moths in the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Francis Walker in 1855. Species are distributed in South Africa, China, throughout India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, and Java.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Orgyiini |
| Genus: | Aroa Walker, 1855 |
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Description
editThey are diurnal fliers. The genus differs from Orgyia due to much longer palpi and less-hairy body. Third joint prominent. Legs are less hairy. Female has fully developed wings. Antennae branches are shorter than in male.[1]
Species
editSome species of this genus are:[2][3]
- Aroa abalia Collenette, 1949 western Java
- Aroa achrodisca Hampson, 1910 Senegal
- Aroa anthora (Felder, 1874)
- Aroa asthenes Collenette, 1938 Palawan
- Aroa atrella Hampson, [1893] Sikkim, Assam
- Aroa atrescens Hampson, 1897 Khasia Hills
- Aroa callista (Collenette, 1933) Kivu
- Aroa campbelli Hampson, 1905 India (Chennai)
- Aroa clara Swinhoe, 1885 Bombay
- Aroa cometaris Butler, 1887 Solomons
- Aroa danva Schaus & Clements, 1893 Sierra Leone
- Aroa difficilis Walker, 1855 southern Africa
- Aroa discalis Walker, 1855 southern Africa
- Aroa eugonia Collenette, 1953 Ivory Coast
- Aroa gyroptera Collenette, 1938 Philippines (Luzon)
- Aroa incerta Rogenhofer, 1891 Kenya
- Aroa interrogationis Collenette, 1938 Uganda
- Aroa kambaiti Collenette, 1960 Myanmar
- Aroa leonensis Hampson, 1910 Sierra Leone
- Aroa luteifascia (Hampson, 1895) Myanmar
- Aroa major Hampson, [1893] Sri Lanka
- Aroa maxima Hampson, [1893] Sri Lanka
- Aroa melanoleuca Hampson, 1905 Angola
- Aroa melaxantha (Walker, 1865) southern Africa
- Aroa nepalensis Daniel, 1961 Nepal
- Aroa nigripicta Holland, 1893 western Africa
- Aroa ochripicta Moore, 1879 Hong Kong
- Aroa ochrota (Hampson, 1904) Kerala
- Aroa pampoecila Collenette, 1930 Tanganyika
- Aroa plana (Walker, 1855) northern India
- Aroa postfusca Gaede, 1932 Yunnan
- Aroa pyrrhochroma Walker, 1865 Sikkim, Bhutan, India
- Aroa quadrimaculata (Janse, 1915) Zimbabwe
- Aroa quadriplagata Pagenstecher, 1903 north-eastern Africa
- Aroa risoria Swinhoe, 1903 Java
- Aroa sagrara Swinhoe, 1885
- Aroa scytodes Collenette, 1932 Malaysia
- Aroa sienna Hampson, 1891 Nilgiris
- Aroa simplex (Walker, 1865) southern India
- Aroa socrus (Geyer, 1837) Java
- Aroa subnotata (Walker, 1855) Sri Lanka
- Aroa tomisa Druce, 1896 eastern Africa
- Aroa vosseleri (Grünberg, 1907) Tanzania
- Aroa xerampelina (Swinhoe, 1885) Pune
- Aroa yokoae Bethune-Baker, 1927 Cameroon
References
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Aroa (Lymantriinae).
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Aroa Walker, 1855". Afromoths. Retrieved November 18, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku (December 1, 2015). "Aroa Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
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