Thelosia is a genus of moths of the Apatelodidae family.[1] It was first described in 1896 by William Schaus,[a] containing at the time three species: Thelosia phalaena, T. camina and T. truvena. Since then, several additional species have been described.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Apatelodidae |
| Genus: | Thelosia Schaus, 1896[1] |
Species edit
Per Kitching et al. 2018, the genus contains the following species:[1]
- Thelosia camina Schaus, 1896
- Thelosia herta Schaus, 1939
- Thelosia impedita Dyar, 1928
- Thelosia jorgenseni Schaus, 1927
- Thelosia mayaca Schaus, 1939
- Thelosia meldola Schaus, 1900
- Thelosia minois (Schaus, 1892) – originally described as Tarchon minois[2]
- Thelosia phalaena Schaus, 1896
- Thelosia postflavida Draudt, 1929
- Thelosia resputa Draudt, 1929
- Thelosia truncata (Schaus, 1894) – originally described as Trabala (?) truncata[3]
- Thelosia truvena Schaus, 1896
References edit
- ^ in "New species of Heterocera". Journal of the New York Entomological Society. 4 (2): 53–55. June 1896.
- ^ a b c Kitching, Ian; Rougerie, Rodolphe; Zwick, Andreas; Hamilton, Chris; Laurent, Ryan St; Naumann, Stefan; Mejia, Liliana Ballesteros; Kawahara, Akito (2 December 2018). "A global checklist of the Bombycoidea (Insecta: Lepidoptera)". Biodiversity Data Journal. 6 (6). Data Resources; Supplementary material: checklist. doi:10.3897/BDJ.6.e22236. ISSN 1314-2828. PMC 5904559. PMID 29674935.
- ^ Schaus, William (1892). "Descriptions of new Species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Brazil, Mexico, Peru—part II". In Flower, William (ed.). Proceedings of the General Meetings for Scientific Business of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1892. p. 325.
- ^ Schaus, William (1894). "3.On new Species of Heterocera from Tropical America". In Flower, W.H. (ed.). Proceedings of the general meetings for scientific business of the Zoological Society of London for the year 1894. Zoological Society of London. p. 237.
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Thelosia". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
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