Acrapex spoliata

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Acrapex spoliata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Acrapex
Species:
A. spoliata
Binomial name
Acrapex spoliata
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Nephopteryx spoliataWalker, 1863

Acrapex spoliata is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. [1] It is found in Africa, including Sierra Leone and South Africa.

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Description

Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with some dark brown: palpi with the 2nd joint brown at sides; abdomen dorsally dark brown, ventrally ochreous tinged with rufous. Forewing ochreous tinged with rufous, the costal area suffused with dark brown leaving slight pale streaks on the veins; the median nervure and base of veins arising from it streaked with black-brown; a black-brown streak in and beyond lower angle of cell with white points on it before and beyond the angle; a diffused oblique black-brown shade from termen below apex to vein 3; a terminal series of slight black lunules: cilia dark brown mixed with ochreous. Hindwing red brown; cilia whitish at tips; the underside grey suffused with fuscous, traces of a dark discoidal spot and diffused curved postmedial line. [2]

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References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine . CRC Press. ISBN   0-916846-45-8, ISBN   978-0-916846-45-9
  2. Hampson, George F. (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum. PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .