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Theretra Hubner
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).
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