''Arbelodes'' 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 in the family

Metarbelidae The Metarbelidae are a family of the Cossoidea also called the carpenter or goat moths, and is sometimes treated as a subfamily, Metarbelinae of the Cossidae. No synapomorphies are shared with the Cossidae based on adult morphology. The family Met ...

Species

* '' Arbelodes agassizi'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes albitorquata'' (Hampson, 1910) * '' Arbelodes claudiae'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes collaris'' Aurivillius, 1921 * '' Arbelodes deprinsi'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes dicksoni'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes dupreezi'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes flavicolor'' (Janse, 1925) * '' Arbelodes franziskae'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes goellnerae'' Mey, 2012 * '' Arbelodes griseata'' Janse, 1925 * '' Arbelodes haberlandorum'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes heringi'' (Janse, 1930) * '' Arbelodes iridescens'' (Janse, 1925) * '' Arbelodes kroonae'' Lehmann, 2007 * '' Arbelodes kruegeri'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes meridialis'' Karsch, 1896 (= ''Arbelodes meridionalis'' von Dalla Torre & Strand, 1923) * '' Arbelodes mondeensis'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes prochesi'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes sebelensis'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes shimonii'' Lehmann, 2010 * '' Arbelodes sticticosta'' (Hampson, 1910) * '' Arbelodes varii'' Lehmann, 2010

Former species

* '' Arbelodes albivenata'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Arbelodes bisinuata'' Hampson, 1920 * '' Arbelodes castanea'' Gaede, 1929 * '' Arbelodes diagonalis'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Arbelodes guttata'' Aurivillius, 1910 * '' Arbelodes minima'' Hampson, 1920 * '' Arbelodes obliquifascia'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Arbelodes rufula'' Hampson, 1910 * '' Arbelodes semifasciata'' Gaede, 1929 * '' Arbelodes tetrasticta'' Hampson, 1910

References

* , 1896. Die Hollandiiden oder die äthiopischen Arbeliden W.J. Holland's. ''Entomologische Nachrichten, 22(9)'': 135–141. * , 2010: A revision of the genus Arbelodes Karsch (Lepidoptera:Cossoidea:Metarbelidae) from southeast-central and southern Africa with the description of thirteen new species. ''Published by the author. Hamburg, 82 pages, 8 b/w plates, 5 colour plates''. Full article

* , 2011: New and little known species of Lepidoptera of southwestern Africa. ''Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 6'': 146–261. * , 2012: ''Arbelodes goellnerae'' sp. nov. aus dem südlichen Namibia (Lepidoptera: Cossoidea, Metarbelidae). ''Entomologische Zeitschrift'' 122 (3): 103–105.

External links

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Metarbelinae {{Lepidoptera-stub