- Animals
- ›Arthropods
- ›Hexapods
- ›Insects
- ›Winged and Once-winged Insects
- ›Butterflies and Moths
- ›Pyralid and Crambid Snout Moths
- ›Crambid Snout Moths
- ›Pearl Moths
- ›Margaroniini
Terastia
Terastia is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It was described by Achille Guenée in 1854 with Terastia meticulosalis as type species. The genus is currently placed in the tribe Margaroniini, where it is closely related to the genera Agathodes and Liopasia.
Terastia with its eight species is distributed in the tropical regions of the Neotropical, Afrotropical and Oriental realm as well as Australasia.
5 branches of this genus, most-observed first
Erythrina borer
speciesTerastia meticulosalis
Terastia egialealis
speciesTerastia egialealis
African Erythrina-borer
speciesTerastia africana
Terastia subjectalis
speciesTerastia subjectalis
Windowed Erythrina-borer
speciesTerastia margaritis
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
—
geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
Drag the globe to turn it. Dots are where records exist, not a range map; darker means more records.
In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Terastia in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 194348.