Similipepsis
Encyclopedia
Similipepsis is a genus of moth
s in the Sesiidae
family.
Moth
A moth is an insect closely related to the butterfly, both being of the order Lepidoptera. Moths form the majority of this order; there are thought to be 150,000 to 250,000 different species of moth , with thousands of species yet to be described...
s in the Sesiidae
Sesiidae
The Sesiidae or clearwing moths are family of the Lepidoptera in which the wings partially have hardly any of the normal lepidopteran scales, leaving them transparent. The bodies are generally striped with yellow, red or white, sometimes very brightly, and they have simple antennae...
family.
Species
- Similipepsis takizawai Arita & Špatenka, 1989
- Similipepsis yunnanensis Špatenka & Arita, 1992
- Similipepsis aurea Gaede, 1929
- Similipepsis ekisi Wang, 1984
- Similipepsis eumenidiformis Bartsch, 2008
- Similipepsis maromizaensis Bartsch, 2008
- Similipepsis osuni Bakowski & Kallies, 2008
- Similipepsis typicaSimilipepsis typicaSimilipepsis typica is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is known from Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Sierra Leone and Zimbabwe....
(Strand, [1913]) - Similipepsis violaceaSimilipepsis violaceaSimilipepsis violacea is a moth of the Sesiidae family. It is known from the Republic of Congo and Gabon....
Le Cerf, 1911 - Similipepsis bicingulata Gorbunov & Arita, 1995
- Similipepsis helicella Kallies & Arita, 2001
- Similipepsis lasiocera Hampson, 1919
- Similipepsis taiwanensis (Arita & Gorbunov, 2001)