Theretra Hübner
Genus Details
Type species: equestris Fabricius (= nessus Drury).
Synonyms:
- Oreus Hubner (type species gnomen Fabricius)
- Gnathostypsis Wallengren (type species ostracina Wallengren)
- Hathia Moore (type species clotho Drury)
- Florina Tutt (type species japonica Boisduval)
- Lilina Tutt (type species pinastrina Butler.)
The genus has the second segment of the palps with the apical tuft of scales directed ventrad; the apex of the first is densely and regularly scaled on the inner side, with a cavity at the apex on the outer side (Rothschild & Jordan, 1903).
Theretra is diverse in the Old World tropics (D’Abrera, 1986: 194).
