Acantholipes

Acantholipes
Scientific classification
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 Erebidae family.

Description

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

Species

Former species

References

  1. taxapad.com
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.

Further reading


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