''Risoba'' is a

genus Genus ( plural genera ) is a taxonomic rank used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In the hierarchy of biological classification, genus com ...

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 of the family

Nolidae Nolidae is a family of moths with about 1,700 described species worldwide. They are mostly small with dull coloration, the main distinguishing feature being a silk cocoon with a vertical exit slit. The group is sometimes known as tuft moths, aft ...

erected by

Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of the birds in the collection of the East India Company. It has been said that Mo ...

in 1881.

Description

Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled, latter long. Tibia smooth and spineless. Forewings without raised tufts and rectangular apex. Cilia non-crenulate. Retinaculum of male bar shaped and claspers long and elongate.

Species

*'' Risoba avola'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *'' Risoba basalis'' Moore, 1882 *'' Risoba becki'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *''

Risoba caeruleata ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore Frederic Moore FZS (13 May 1830 – 10 May 1907) was a British entomologist and illustrator. He produced six volumes of ''Lepidoptera Indica'' and a catalogue of ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *''

Risoba calaina ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Zerny, 1916 *''

Risoba calainigrata ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *'' Risoba calainodes'' A. E. Prout, 1928 *''

Risoba chlora ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1912 *'' Risoba delicata'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *'' Risoba diehli'' Kobes, 1982 *''

Risoba diphteroides ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1898 *'' Risoba diphtheropsis'' A. E. Prout, 1924 *''

Risoba diplogramma ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1912 *'' Risoba diversipennis'' (Walker, 1858) *''

Risoba flavipennis ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1895 *''

Risoba glauca ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1912 *''

Risoba guichardi ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *''

Risoba harmani ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 (Borneo, Brunei, Indonesia) *''

Risoba helbaueri ''Risoba helbaueri'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-l ...

'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *''

Risoba hiemischi ''Risoba hiemischi'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-l ...

'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *''

Risoba hollowayi ''Risoba hollowayi'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in Sumatra Sumatra is one of the Sunda Islands of western Indonesia. It is the largest island that is fully within Indonesian territory, as well as the sixth-l ...

'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *''

Risoba jucunda ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' (Walker, 1862) *''

Risoba kebea ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *''

Risoba lunata ''Risoba lunata'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae. It is found in Ghana, Congo and Nigeria . A known foodplant of its larvae is ''Combretum ''Combretum'', the bushwillows or combretums, make up the type genus of the family Combret ...

'' (Möschler, 1887) (Ghana, Congo, Nigeria) *''

Risoba malagasy ''Risoba malagasy '' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Pierre Viette in 1965. It is found in Toliara in south-west Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Rep ...

'' (Viette, 1965) (Madagascar) *''

Risoba martinii ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *'' Risoba menhoferi'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *'' Risoba obscurivialis'' Holloway, 2003 *'' Risoba obstructa'' Moore, 1881 *'' Risoba olivens'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *'' Risoba orientalis'' Holloway, 1976 *'' Risoba ornata'' Wileman & West, 1929 *'' Risoba owgarra'' A. E. Prout, 1921 *''

Risoba pratti ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *''

Risoba prominens ''Risoba prominens'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1881. It is found in India, Sri Lanka, Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam and Sundaland. The larvae have been recorded feeding on ''Pterocarya'', ''Melasto ...

'' Moore, 1881 (Nepal to Japan/New Guinea) *'' Risoba rafflesae'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *'' Risoba rectilinea'' Draudt, 1950 (China) *'' Risoba repugnans'' (Walker, 1856) *'' Risoba rothei'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *''

Risoba samarinda ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *''

Risoba sticticata ''Risoba sticticata'' is a species of moth of the family Nolidae first described by Alice Ellen Prout in 1924. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a lan ...

'' A. E. Prout, 1924 (New Guinea) *'' Risoba sticticraspis'' Hampson, 1912 *''

Risoba tenuipoda ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' (Strand, 1920) *'' Risoba thalasscura'' Holloway, 2003 *''

Risoba trivialis ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra) *'' Risoba variegata'' (Moore, 1882) (India) *'' Risoba variegatoides'' Poole, 1989 *'' Risoba vialis'' Moore, 1881 (India to Borneo) *'' Risoba viridangulata'' Holloway, 2003 *'' Risoba viridata'' Bethune-Baker, 1906 *''

Risoba viridescens ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Hampson, 1914 *'' Risoba vitellina'' (Moore, 1882) (India) *''

Risoba walshae ''Risoba'' is a genus of moths of the family Nolidae erected by Frederic Moore in 1881. Description Its palpi are upturned and reach the vertex of the head. Antennae almost as long as forewing, with fasciculated (bundled) cilia in male. Thorax a ...

'' Holloway, 2003 *'' Risoba wittstadti'' Kobes, 2006 (Sumatra)

References

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