Acrapex rhabdoneura

Acrapex rhabdoneura is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by George Hampson in 1910.[1] It is found in Africa, including Kenya.

Acrapex rhabdoneura
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Noctuidae
Genus:
Acrapex
Species:
A. rhabdoneura
Binomial name
Acrapex rhabdoneura
Hampson, 1910

The wingspan is 22–26 mm.[2]

Description

Head, thorax, and abdomen pale ochreous slightly tinged with rufous; palpi dark brown. Forewing pale ochreous slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with brown; the costal edge and interspaces of costal area suffused with reddish brown; a diffused red-brown fascia in and below cell to near termen where it meets an oblique brown fascia from termen below apex to vein 2 with a pale oblique fascia before it from apex; a white streak on extremity of median nervure slightly hooked on discocellulars; the veins beyond the cell streaked with white to the subterminal fascia; a fine red-brown terminal line; cilia brown mixed with ochreous. Hindwing pure white; the underside with the costal area tinged with ochreous.[2]

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.


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