Lacera

Lacera
	Lacera alope
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Hulodini
Genus:	Lacera; Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852[1]

Lacera is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching vertex of head and short third joint. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hairy. Tibia very heavily tufted with hair. Forewings with arched apex and somewhat acute. The outer margin angled at center. Cilia crenulate. Hindwings with crenulate cilia. Margin produced to slight points at veins 4 and 6. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are aborted.[2]

Species

Lacera alope Cramer, [1780]
Lacera apicirupta Carcasson, 1965
Lacera asinuosa Holloway, 1979
Lacera azatothi Zilli & Hogenes, in lit
Lacera contrasta Holloway, 1979
Lacera nyarlathotepi Zilli & Holloway, in lit
Lacera noctilio Fabricius, 1794
Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879
Lacera uniformis Holloway, 1979
Lacera vinacea Holloway, 1979
Lacera violacea Holloway, 1979

Former species

Lacera capella Guenée, 1852
Lacera sublineata Walker, 1865 (Daddala)

References

Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lacera Guenee 1852". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

External links

Savela, Markku. "Lacera Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Lacera Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 20, 2019.

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[1] Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lacera Guenee 1852". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2019.

[2] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.