Cisthene

For other uses, see Cisthene (disambiguation).

Cisthene is a genus of lichen moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.

Cisthene
Cisthene picta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Cisthenina
Genus:	Cisthene Walker, 1854
Synonyms
Illice Walker, 1859 Maepha Walker, 1864 Pyralidia Felder, 1874 Byssophaga Stretch, 1872 Zonoda Schaus, 1896 Zanoda Schaus, 1896 Ozodania Dyar, 1899

Species

The following species are recognised in the genus Cisthene:^[1]

• Cisthene abala (Schaus, 1905)
• Cisthene albizonea (Hampson, 1918)
• Cisthene angelus (Dyar, 1904) – angel lichen moth
• Cisthene barnesii (Dyar, 1904)
• Cisthene batialis (Walker, 1859)
• Cisthene biota (Dyar, 1910)
• Cisthene bisigna Berg, 1875
• Cisthene blanda (Jones, 1914)
• Cisthene bonitensis (Schaus, 1924)
• Cisthene calochroma (Snellen, 1878)
• Cisthene citrina Druce, 1885
• Cisthene conjuncta (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
• Cisthene croesus (Hampson, 1914)
• Cisthene cryptopyra (Hampson, 1903)
• Cisthene coronado C.B. Knowlton, 1967
• Cisthene deserta (Felder, 1868)
• Cisthene discistriga (Dognin, 1912)
• Cisthene ditrigona (Schaus, 1899)
• Cisthene dives (Schaus, 1896)
• Cisthene dorsimacula (Dyar, 1904)
• Cisthene endoxantha (Hampson, 1903)
• Cisthene fasciata (Schaus, 1896)
• Cisthene faustinula (Boisduval, 1869)
• Cisthene flagrans (Hampson, 1903)
• Cisthene flavizonata (Dognin, 1916)
• Cisthene fuscilingua Dyar, 1914)
• Cisthene griseola (Rothschild, 1913)
• Cisthene hilaris Felder, 1875
• Cisthene introbasalis (Rothschild, 1916)
• Cisthene juanita Barnes & Benjamin, 1925
• Cisthene kentuckiensis (Dyar, 1904) – Kentucky lichen moth
• Cisthene lactea Stretch, 1885
• Cisthene leuconotum (Dyar, 1914)
• Cisthene liberomacula (Dyar, 1904)
• Cisthene lincea (Schaus, 1921)
• Cisthene longistriga (Rothschild, 1913)
• Cisthene lycomorphodes (Draudt, 1918)
• Cisthene martini C.B. Knowlton, 1967
• Cisthene mediofasciata (Rothschild, 1913)
• Cisthene metoxia Hampson, 1898
• Cisthene minuta Butler, 1877
• Cisthene nigromaculata (Reich, 1933)
• Cisthene opulentana (Walker, 1864)
• Cisthene orbonella (Hampson, 1900)
• Cisthene pacata (Schaus, 1929)
• Cisthene packardii (Grote, 1863) – Packard's lichen moth
• Cisthene perrosea (Dyar, 1904)
• Cisthene persimilis (Hampson, 1903)
• Cisthene petrovna Schaus, 1892
• Cisthene phaeoceps (Hampson, 1900)
• Cisthene picta (Barnes & McDunnough, 1918)
• Cisthene plumbea Stretch, 1885 – lead-colored lichen moth
• Cisthene polyzona Druce, 1885
• Cisthene pygmaea (Schaus, 1905)
• Cisthene rhodocraspis (Hampson, 1905)
• Cisthene rosacea (Schaus, 1896)
• Cisthene roseiceps (Hampson, 1905)
• Cisthene rubricollis (Schaus, 1905)
• Cisthene ruficollis (Schaus, 1896)
• Cisthene sexalata (Draudt, 1918)
• Cisthene striata Ottolengui, 1898 – striated lichen moth
• Cisthene subjecta Walker, 1854 – subject lichen moth
• Cisthene subrubra (Schaus, 1905)
• Cisthene subrufa (Barnes & McDunnough, 1913)
• Cisthene tenuifascia Harvey, 1875 – thin-banded lichen moth
• Cisthene tessellata (Dognin, 1912)
• Cisthene trimaculata (Jones, 1914)
• Cisthene triplaga (Hampson, 1905)
• Cisthene triplagiata (Rothschild, 1913)
• Cisthene (aff. triplagiata) sp.
• Cisthene tyres (Druce, 1897)
• Cisthene unifascia Grote & Robinson, 1868
• Cisthene uniplaga (Reich, 1936)
• Cisthene vilaricensis (Schaus, 1938)
• Cisthene xanthospila (Hampson, 1900)