Acontia feae

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Acontia feae
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Acontia
Species:
A. feae
Binomial name
Acontia feae
(Berio, 1937) [1]
Synonyms
  • Hoplotarache feaeBerio

Acontia feae is a moth of the family Noctuidae. It is known from Cape Verde and is found on the island of Brava. The species was described in 1937 by Emilio Berio. It is named after Leonardo Fea, who collected the specimen described by Berio in 1898. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Acontia feae (Berio, 1937)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 12, 2017.