Acrapex rhabdoneura
Acrapex rhabdoneura | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Noctuidae |
Genus: | Acrapex |
Species: | A. rhabdoneura
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Binomial name | |
Acrapex rhabdoneura Hampson, 1910
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Acrapex rhabdoneura is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by George Hampson in 1910.[1] It is found in Africa, including Kenya.
Description
[edit]Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; palpi dark brown. Forewing pale ochreous slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with brown; the costal edge and interspaces of costal area suffused with reddish brown; a diffused red-brown fascia in and below cell to near termen where it meets an oblique brown fascia from termen below apex to vein 2 with a pale oblique fascia before it from apex; a white streak on extremity of median nervure slightly hooked on discocellulars; the veins beyond the cell streaked with white to the subterminal fascia; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia brown mixed with ochreous. Hindwing pure white; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
- ^ a b Hampson, George F. (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.