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Acantholipes

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Acantholipes
Acantholipes trimeni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
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 family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer in 1857.

Description

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

Species

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Former species

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References

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  1. Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Acantholipes Lederer 1857". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on December 6, 2018. Retrieved January 12, 2019.
  2. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis. p. 520 via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

Further reading

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  • Robert W. Poole (1989). Noctuidae. Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118 Part 1. Vol. Part 1 of Lepidopterorum catalogus (illustrated ed.). CRC Press. ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.