Mosopia

Mosopia is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It is found in south-east Asia, including Thailand, Borneo and Malaysia.^[1] The genus was first described by Francis Walker in 1866 from a specimen in the British Museum. The specimen Walker describes was from Penang in Malaysia.^[2]

Mosopia
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Herminiinae
Genus:	Mosopia Francis Walker, [1866]
Type species
Mosopia megaspila Walker, 1866
Synonyms
Trotosema Butler, 1879

Walker gave Mosopia megaspila as a type species. This species has a wingspan of 39 millimetres (1.5 in) with a large distinctive black spot in the middle of each forewings (hence the name megaspila, which means "large spotted"). Three other species are also classified in the genus Mosopia.^[3]

Species

In alphabetical order:^[4]

• Mosopia eudoxusalis (Walker, [1859]) Sundaland, Thailand
• Mosopia kononenkoi Holloway, 2008 Borneo, Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Thailand
• Mosopia magniplaga (Swinhoe, 1905) Meghalaya
• Mosopia megaspila Walker, [1866] Peninsular Malaysia, Borneo
• Mosopia pallidusalis Holloway, 2008 Borneo
• Mosopia sordidum (Butler, 1879) Japan, Korea