Dasychira

Dasychira
Dasychira grisefacta
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Lymantriinae
Tribe: Orgyiini
Genus: Dasychira
Hübner, 1809
Synonyms
  • Anaxila Walker, 1855
  • Dediama Walker, 1855
  • Parorgyia Packard, [1865]
  • Noleca Walker, 1855
  • Boreconia Walker, 1865
  • Dicranuropsis Felder, 1874
  • Pseudonotodonta Möschler, 1887
  • Oecura Holland, 1893
  • Notohyba Holland, 1893
  • Thamnocera Holland, 1893
  • Bathmochtha Karsch, 1895
  • Notopriota Swinhoe, 1903
  • Rhodesana Bethune-Baker, 1908
  • Dasychirana Bethune-Baker, 1911
  • Bicelluphora Janse, 1915
  • Tessmannia Bryk, 1915
  • Dasylaelia Aurivillius, 1925
  • Macrolaelia Aurivillius, 1925
  • Sminthopses Hampson, 1926
  • Heptaptosis Talbot, 1929

Dasychira is a genus of tussock moths in the family Erebidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1809. They are well distributed all over Africa, Europe, North America, Madagascar, Japan, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Java and Australia.

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