Abraxas (moth)

Abraxas
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Geometridae
Genus:	Abraxas Leach, 1815
Species
Spilote Hübner, [1806] Spilota Hübner, 1818 Zerene Treitschke, 1825 Calospilos Hübner, [1825] Callispilus Agassiz, 1847 Potera Moore, [1879] Omophyseta Warren, 1894 Silabraxas Swinhoe, 1900 Chooreechillum Lucas, 1901 Dextridens Wehrli, 1934 Isostictia Wehrli, 1934 Diceratodesia Wehrli, 1935 Mesohypoleuca Wehrli, 1935 Rhabdotaedoeagus Wehrli, 1935 Spinuncus Wehrli, 1935 Trimeresia Wehrli, 1935

Abraxas (common name, the magpie moths) is a genus of moth in the family Geometridae.

Palpi porrect and roughly scaled. Hind tibia of male dilated with a fold containing a tuft of hair. Forewings with vein 3 from before angle of cell and veins 7, 8, 9 and 10, 11 stalked. Vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12, or apparently absent. Hindwings with vein 3 from before angle of cell.

The genus includes the following species:

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