title: Lithosia
text: # Lithosia
  
  Lithosia is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1798. Species are 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.
  
  ## Species
  
  * Lithosia quadra Linnaeus, 1758
  * Lithosia taishanica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia yuennanensis (Daniel, 1952)
  
  ## Placement unclear
  
  * Lithosia amoyca Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia atuntseica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia clarivenata Reich, 1937
  * Lithosia eburneola Turati, 1933
  * Lithosia gynaegrapha de Joannis, 1930
  * Lithosia insolata Dannatt, 1929
  * Lithosia likiangica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia lungtanica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia szetchuana Sterneck, 1938
  * Lithosia tienmushanica Daniel, 1954
  
  ## Former species
  
  * Lithosia atroradiata Walker, 1864
  * Lithosia chekiangica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia chrysargyrea Kiriakoff, 1963
  * Lithosia colonoides Kiriakoff, 1963
  * Lithosia formosicola Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia fukienica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia horishanella Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia hunanica Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia innshanica Daniel, 1939
  * Lithosia karenkona Matsumura, 1930
  * Lithosia magnata Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia minima Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia pavescens Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia ranrunensis Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia postmaculosa Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia pseudocomplana Daniel, 1939
  * Lithosia ratonella Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia rhyparodactyla Kiriakoff, 1963
  * Lithosia saitonis Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia sakia Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia subcosteola Druce, 1899
  * Lithosia taiwanella Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia tomponis Matsumura, 1927
  * Lithosia uniformeola Daniel, 1954
  * Lithosia usuguronis Matsumura, 1927
  