Leucaloa

Leucaloa
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Leucaloa Butler, 1875
Type species
Spilosoma eugraphica Walker, [1865] 1864

Leucaloa is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.

Species

• Leucaloa butti (Rothschild, 1910)
• Leucaloa eugraphica (Walker, [1865] 1864)
• Leucaloa infragyrea (Saalmüller, 1891)
• Leucaloa nyasica (Hampson, 1911)

References

• Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285-301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
• Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog

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