Acrapex leucophlebia
| Acrapex leucophlebia | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Acrapex |
| Species: | A. leucophlebia |
| Binomial name | |
| Acrapex leucophlebia Hampson, 1894 | |
Acrapex leucophlebia [1] is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Nilgiri mountains in India.
Description
Head and thorax ocherous mixed with brown; abdomen ocherous white slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. Forewing ocherous white irrorated with red brown, the veins defined by slight brown streaks except on inner area; a slight brown streak below basal half of cell; the discocellulars with some brown points before and beyond them; a diffused oblique whitish fascia from apex to discal fold with a brown shade below it from termen below apex, with short brown streaks on its inner edge above and below vein 5; a terminal series of minute black lunulcs; cilia whitish at base, dark at tips. Hindwing ocherous white tinged with reddish brown except on costal area; cilia ocherous white; the underside ocherous white slightly tinged with red brown.[3]
References
- ↑ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
- ↑ Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.
- ↑ Sir George F. Hampson, Bart. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.