''Amauta'' is a genus of

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

s within the family

Castniidae Castniidae, or castniid moths, is a small family of moths with fewer than 200 species: The majority are Neotropical with some in Australia and a few in south-east Asia. These are medium-sized to very large moths, usually with drab, cryptically-ma ...

. It was described by

Constant Vincent Houlbert Constant Vincent Houlbert (18 July 1857 in Voutré en Mayenne – 22 December 1947 in Rennes) was a French entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. He was a conservator at the Museum in Rennes and later Professor in th ...

in 1918.

Species

* '' Amauta ambatensis'' (Houlbert, 1917) * '' Amauta cacica'' (Herrich-Schäffer,

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* '' Amauta hodeei'' (Oberthür, 1881) * '' Amauta papilionaris'' (Walker,

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References

Castniidae {{Castniidae-stub