Anticoreura

Anticoreura
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Dioptinae
Tribe: Dioptini
Genus: Anticoreura
Prout, 1918
Species: A. salmoni
Binomial name
Anticoreura salmoni
(Druce, 1885)
Synonyms
  • Coreura salmoni Druce, 1885

Anticoreura is a genus of moths of the Notodontidae family. It consists of only one species, Anticoreura salmoni, which is found in Colombia.

Adults have dull, brownish-black forewings with a salmon-colored transverse band. The hindwings are iridescent blue with a dark gray fringe.

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