Acrapex carnea
| Acrapex carnea | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Acrapex |
| Species: | A. carnea |
| Binomial name | |
| Acrapex carnea Hampson, 1905 | |
Acrapex carnea [1] is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Africa, including South Africa.
Description
Head and thorax brown slightly mixed with ochreous; thorax ochreous tinged with rufous; pectus, legs, and abdomen ochreous suffused with brown. Fore wing ochreous tinged with rufous; a brown streak on median nervure except at base; slight black streaks in and beyond lower angle of cell and a point at upper angle; a whitish fascia in terminal half of cell and thence obliquely curved to apex; traces of an oblique postmedial series of dark points on veins 4 to 1; a brown shade from termen below apex with very slight dark streaks on its inner edge above and below vein 5; traces of a terminal series of black points; cilia white tinged with brown and with faint brown line at middle. Hind wing whitish suffused with brown, paler at base; cilia white tinged with brown and with faint brown line near base; the underside whitish suffused with fuscous 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.