Ischyja

Ischyja is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae erected by Jacob Hübner in 1823.

Description

Palpi with second joint broad and rectangularly scaled, reaching vertex of head. Third joint long, naked and oblique. Antennae thickened and fasciculate in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia spineless. Fore tibia with a triangular tuft of hair. Mid-tibia slightly fringed. Hind tibia clothed with long hair. Forewings with highly arched costa towards the apex, which is produced and acute. Outer margin obliquely curved. Hindwings with very short cell. Male with veins 2 to 4 running close together to near outer margin. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs.

Species

Ischyja albata Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874Ischyja anna Swinhoe, 1902Ischyja ebusa Swinhoe, 1902Ischyja ferrifracta Snellen, 1863Ischyja gynnis Prout, 1928Ischyja hagenii Snellen, 1885Ischyja hemiphaea Hampson, 1926Ischyja inferna Swinhoe, 1902Ischyja manlia Cramer, 1776Ischyja manlioides Prout, 1928Ischyja marapok Ischyja neocherina Butler, 1877Ischyja paraplesius Rothschild, 1920

''Ischyja subreducta''