Mecistoptera

Mecistoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Mecistoptera
Hampson, 1893

Mecistoptera is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Description

Palpi long, obliquely porrect, where the second joint thickly clothed with scales. Third joint long and slender. Frontal tuft short. Antennae with long cilia in male, which is short in female. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia nearly naked. Fore wings long and narrow with produced and acute apex. Outer margin obliue and excurved at middle. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form an areole. Hind wings with veins 3,4 from cell and vein 5 from below the middle of discocellulars. The outer margin truncate from vein 4 to anal angle.[1]

Species

References

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


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