''Lactura'' 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

Lacturidae The Lacturidae comprise a family of moths in the superfamily Zygaenoidea. Brightly coloured tropical moths, the Lacturidae have been previously placed in the Plutellidae, Yponomeutidae : ''Certain members of the unrelated snout moths (Pyralidae ...

Selected species

*'' Lactura aglaodora'' (Turner, 1942) *'' Lactura calliphylla'' (Turner, 1903) *'' Lactura caminaea'' (Meyrick, 1887) *'' Lactura cristata'' (Butler, 1886) *'' Lactura dives'' (Walker, 1854) *'' Lactura erythocera'' (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) *'' Lactura erythractis'' (Meyrick, 1887) *'' Lactura haplochroa'' (Turner, 1932) *'' Lactura laetifera'' (Walker, 1865) *'' Lactura leucophthalma'' (Meyrick, 1907) *'' Lactura mactata'' (R. Felder & Rogenhofer, 1875) *'' Lactura panopsia'' (Turner, 1926) *'' Lactura parallela'' (Meyrick, 1889) *'' Lactura phoenobapta'' (Turner, 1903) *'' Lactura pilcheri'' (T.P. Lucas, 1891) *'' Lactura pteropoecila'' (Turner, 1913) *'' Lactura pyrilampis'' (Meyrick, 1886) *'' Lactura pyronympha'' Meyrick, 1923 *'' Lactura rhodomochla'' (Turner, 1942) *'' Lactura rubritexta'' (Meyrick, 1913) *'' Lactura sapotearum'' (Swainson, 1851) *'' Lactura thiospila'' (Turner, 1903)

References

* , 1995: Lacturidae, new family (Lepidoptera: Zygaenoidea). ''Tropical Lepidoptera Research'' 6 (2): 146-148. Full article

Zygaenoidea Zygaenoidea genera {{Zygaenoidea-stub