Acrapex leucophlebia

Acrapex leucophlebia
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.

The wingspan is 26-32 mm. ^[2]

Description

Head and thorax ochrcous mixed with brown; abdomen ochreous white slightly irrorated with brown. Pore wing ochreous 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 foid 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. Hind wing ochreous white tinged with reddish brown except on costal area; cilia ochreous white; the underside ochreous white slightly tinged with red-brown. ^[3]

References

1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.
2. Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.
3. Sir GEORGE F. HAMPSON, Bart. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalænæ in the British museum.