Virbia Walker, 1854

Laguerre, Michel, 2014, Catalogue of the Neotropical Arctiini Leach, [1815] (except Ctenuchina Kirby, 1837 and Euchromiina Butler, 1876) (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Arctiinae), Zoosystema 36 (2), pp. 137-533 : 382

Genus Virbia Walker, 1854

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Virbia Walker, 1854b: 470 . — Zaspel & Weller 2006 (revision of the genera Holomelina Herrich-Schäffer, 1855 and Virbia ).

Bepara Walker, [1865] a: 143. — Type species: Bepara egaca Walker, [1865] .

Terna Walker, [1865] a: 267. — Type species: Terna ampla Walker, [1865] .

Holomelina Herrich-Schäffer, 1855b: 95 , 97. — Type species: Eubaphe aurantiaca Hübner, [1831] .

Cothocida Walker, 1865b: 499 . — Type species: Cothocida nigrifera Walker, 1865 .

Cytorus Grote, [1866] : 232. — Type species: Cytorus latus Grote, 1865 .

TYPE SPECIES. — Virbia mentiens Walker, 1854 , by subsequent designation par Kirby (1892).

Figures

FIG. 19. — A-H, dorsal views. A, Pygarctia abdominalis Grote, 1871, USA, South Carolina (CNC); B, Pygoctenucha terminalis (Walker, 1854), Holotype, Mexico (BMNH); C, Pareuchaetes insulata (Walker, 1855), syntype female, Jamaica (BMNH); D, Lerina incarnata Walker, 1854, holotype male, Mexico (BMNH); E, Ectypia bivittata Clemens, 1861, USA, Texas (CNC); F, Aemilia rubriplaga (Walker, 1855),holotype female,Venezuela (BMNH);G, Venedictoffia flavicollis Toulgoët,1977,Ecuador,Laguna de Papallacta (MNHN);H, Virbia mentiens Walker, 1854, holotype male, Venezuela (BMNH). Scale bars: 0.5 cm.