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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
{{Automatic taxobox
| image = Lithosia quadra f.jpg
| image_caption = ''[[Lithosia quadra]]''
| display_parents = 3
| taxon = Lithosia
| authority = [[Johan Christian Fabricius|Fabricius]], 1798<ref>{{cite web |last=Savela |first=Markku |url=http://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/arctiidae/lithosiinae/lithosia/ |title=''Lithosia'' Fabricius, 1798 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=June 7, 2018}}</ref>
| synonyms =
*''Lithosis'' <small>Billberg, 1820</small>
*''Lichenia'' <small>Sodoffsky, 1837</small>
}}
'''''Lithosia''''' is a [[genus]] of [[moth]]s in the family [[Erebidae]]. The genus was first described by [[Johan Christian Fabricius]] in 1798. Species are [[Cosmopolitan distribution|cosmopolitan]].
==Description==
Palpi short and porrect (extending forward). Antennae ciliated. Forewing with shorter and broader cell. Vein 2 from beyond the middle. Vein 3 and 4 stalked, vein 5 absent, vein 6 from below angle or from angle or beyond it. Vein 9 rising from vein 10 and forming an areole or stalked with veins 7 and 8. Vein 11 free or anastomosing (fused) with vein 12. Hindwing with vein 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked. Vein 5 absent and vein 8 from middle of cell.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1894 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species==
* ''[[Lithosia quadra]]'' <small>Linnaeus, 1758</small>
* ''[[Lithosia taishanica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia yuennanensis]]'' <small>(Daniel, 1952)</small>
==Placement unclear==
* ''[[Lithosia amoyca]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia atuntseica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia clarivenata]]'' <small>Reich, 1937</small>
* ''[[Lithosia eburneola]]'' <small>Turati, 1933</small>
* ''[[Lithosia gynaegrapha]]'' <small>de Joannis, 1930</small>
* ''[[Lithosia insolata]]'' <small>Dannatt, 1929</small>
* ''[[Lithosia likiangica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia lungtanica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia szetchuana]]'' <small>Sterneck, 1938</small>
* ''[[Lithosia tienmushanica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
==Former species==
* ''[[Lithosia atroradiata]]'' <small>Walker, 1864</small>
* ''[[Lithosia chekiangica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia chrysargyrea]]'' <small>Kiriakoff, 1963</small>
* ''[[Lithosia colonoides]]'' <small>Kiriakoff, 1963</small>
* ''[[Lithosia formosicola]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia fukienica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia horishanella]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia hunanica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia innshanica]]'' <small>Daniel, 1939</small>
* ''[[Lithosia karenkona]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1930</small>
* ''[[Lithosia magnata]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia minima]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia pavescens]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia ranrunensis]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia postmaculosa]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia pseudocomplana]]'' <small>Daniel, 1939</small>
* ''[[Lithosia ratonella]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia rhyparodactyla]]'' <small>Kiriakoff, 1963</small>
* ''[[Lithosia saitonis]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia sakia]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia subcosteola]]'' <small>Druce, 1899</small>
* ''[[Lithosia taiwanella]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia tomponis]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
* ''[[Lithosia uniformeola]]'' <small>Daniel, 1954</small>
* ''[[Lithosia usuguronis]]'' <small>Matsumura, 1927</small>
==References==
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==External links==
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*{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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[[Category:Lithosiina]]
[[Category:Moth genera]]
[[Category:Taxa named by Johan Christian Fabricius]]
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