Biology:Acantholipes

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Short description: Genus of moths

Acantholipes
Acantholipes trimeni.jpg
Acantholipes trimeni
Scientific classification e
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Acantholipini
Genus: Acantholipes
Lederer, 1857[1]
Synonyms
  • Docela Walker, 1866
  • Isatoolna Nye, 1975
  • Lasionota Warren, 1912
  • Nolaseniola Strand, 1920

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer in 1857.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and a minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Forewings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.[2]

Species

Former species

  • Acantholipes mesoscota Hampson, 1904

References

Further reading

  • Robert W. Poole (1989). Noctuidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118 Part 1. Part 1 of Lepidopterorum catalogus (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9. 

Wikidata ☰ Q4671974 entry