Aroa Explained
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.
Description
They 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
Some 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
Notes and References
- Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson
. George Hampson . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I . Taylor and Francis . 1892 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- Web site: De Prins . J. . De Prins . W. . amp . 2018 . Aroa Walker, 1855 . Afromoths . November 18, 2018.
- Web site: Savela . Markku . December 1, 2015 . Aroa Walker, 1855 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . March 26, 2020.
