''Euchaetes'' is a genus of

moths 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 ...

in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841.

Species

* '' Euchaetes albaticosta'' (Dyar, 1912) * ''

Euchaetes albicosta ''Euchaetes albicosta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found from Texas, south to Mexico and Nicaragua Nicaragua (; ), officially the Republic of Nicaragua (), is the largest country in C ...

'' (Walker, 1855) * ''

Euchaetes antica ''Euchaetes antica'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1856. It is found from Arizona and New Mexico in the US, south to Mexico, Nicaragua, Honduras and Guatemala. The length of the forewing is 13–15 ...

'' (Walker, 1856) * '' Euchaetes bicolor'' (Rothschild, 1935) * ''

Euchaetes bolteri ''Euchaetes bolteri'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Richard Harper Stretch in 1885. It is found from the US states of Texas and New Mexico to Mexico and Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), offici ...

'' (Stretch, 1885) * ''

Euchaetes castalla ''Euchaetes castalla'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1910. It is found in the US state of Arizona. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is t ...

'' (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910) * ''

Euchaetes cressida ''Euchaetes cressida'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. in 1913. It is found in the US state of Texas and Mexico. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance f ...

'' (Dyar, 1913) * ''

Euchaetes egle ''Euchaetes egle'', the milkweed tiger moth or milkweed tussock moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is a common mid- through late summer feeder ...

'' (Drury, 1773) –

milkweed tiger moth ''Euchaetes egle'', the milkweed tiger moth or milkweed tussock moth, is a moth in the family Erebidae and the tribe Arctiini, the tiger moths. The species was first described by Dru Drury in 1773. It is a common mid- through late summer feeder ...

* '' Euchaetes elegans'' (Stretch, 1874) * ''

Euchaetes expressa ''Euchaetes expressa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Henry Edwards in 1884. It is found in Mexico and Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República d ...

'' (H. Edwards, 1884) * ''

Euchaetes fusca ''Euchaetes fusca'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found from the south-western United States (including California and Arizona) to Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( ...

'' (Rothschild, 1910) * ''

Euchaetes gigantea ''Euchaetes gigantea'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Barnes and James Halliday McDunnough in 1910. It is found in the US states of Arizona, New Mexico and Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ...

'' (Barnes & McDunnough, 1910) * ''

Euchaetes mitis ''Euchaetes'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. It was described by Thaddeus William Harris in 1841. Species * ''Euchaetes albaticosta'' (Dyar, 1912) * ''Euchaetes albicosta'' (Walker, 1855) * ''Euchaetes antica'' (Walker, 1856) * ''E ...

'' Schaus, 1910 * ''

Euchaetes pannycha ''Euchaetes pannycha'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. (February 14, 1866 – January 21, 1929) was an American entomologist. Dyar's Law, a pattern of geometric progression i ...

'' (Dyar, 1918) * ''

Euchaetes perlevis ''Euchaetes perlevis'' is a moth of the family Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth ...

'' (Grote, 1882) * ''

Euchaetes polingi ''Euchaetes polingi'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Samuel E. Cassino in 1928. It is found in the US states of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma Oklahoma (; Choctaw language, Choctaw: ; chr, ᎣᎧᎳᎰᎹ, ''Okal ...

'' (Cassino, 1928) * '' Euchaetes promathides'' (Druce, 1894) * ''

Euchaetes psara ''Euchaetes psara'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. Harrison Gray Dyar Jr. (February 14, 1866 – January 21, 1929) was an American entomologist. Dyar's Law, a pattern of geometric progression in th ...

'' (Dyar, 1907) * ''

Euchaetes rizoma ''Euchaetes rizoma'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1896. It is found in Brazil. References Arctiidae genus list
at ''Butterflies and Moths of the World'' of the Natural History Museum Phaegopterina ...

'' (Schaus, 1896) * '' Euchaetes zella'' (Dyar, 1903)

References

Arctiidae genus list
at ''Butterflies and Moths of the World'' of the Natural History Museum *

External links

A monographic revision of ''Euchaetes'' Harris (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) Hendrickson, Heather Marie (2014)
Phaegopterina Moth genera {{Phaegopterina-stub