title: Chusaris
text: # Chusaris
  
  Chusaris is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was erected by Francis Walker in 1859.
  
  ## Description
  
  Palpi long and porrect (extending forward), where the second joint fringed with scales above. Third joint slender and naked. Thorax smooth. Abdomen with a tuft on basal segment. Legs slender and naked. Forewings long and narrow with depressed and acute apex. Slight raised tufts found at middle and end of cell. Forewings with veins 6 and 7 arise from angle of cell and veins 8 to 10 stalked. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 stalked and vein 5 from middle of discocellulars. Veins 6 and 7 stalked.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Chusaris albilineata Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris albipunctalis Rothschild, 1915
  * Chusaris bisinuata Hampson, 1898
  * Chusaris compripalpis Strand, 1920
  * Chusaris dinawa Bethune-Baker, 1908
  * Chusaris dubiosa Strand, 1919
  * Chusaris figurata (Moore, [1885])
  * Chusaris griseisigna Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris idaeoides (Hampson, 1891)
  * Chusaris indigna (Wileman & West, 1930)
  * Chusaris indistincta (Rothschild, 1920)
  * Chusaris maculalis Walker, [1866]
  * Chusaris meterythrina Hampson, 1898
  * Chusaris microlepidopteronis (Strand, 1920)
  * Chusaris mulumaculata Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris nigrisigna Hampson, 1902
  * Chusaris nigromaculata (Wileman, 1915)
  * Chusaris obliquisignata Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris olearia Bethune-Baker, 1908
  * Chusaris opisthospila Turner, 1909
  * Chusaris bifasciata Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris paucimaculata (Hampson, 1893)
  * Chusaris puncticilia (Hampson, 1891)
  * Chusaris purpurisigna Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris renalis (Moore, 1882)
  * Chusaris retatalis Walker, [1859]
  * Chusaris retataloides Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris rhynchinodes Strand, 1915
  * Chusaris roseolactea (Rothschild, 1915
  * Chusaris setocircularis Holloway, 2008
  * Chusaris signicosta (Walker, [1863])
  * Chusaris sordida (Wileman & South, 1917)
  * Chusaris venata Warren, 1914
  * Chusaris violisigna Holloway, 2008
  