Acrapex metaphaea

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

Acrapex metaphaea [1] is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in Africa, including Zimbabwe and South Africa.

The wingspan is about 26 mm.[2]

Description

Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous and mixed with some black-brown; palpi dark brown; abdomen dorsally dark brown, ventrally ochreous tinged with rufous. Fore wing rufous, the costal area, median nervure and veins arising from it, and inner margin suffused with dark brown, slight white points in and beyond lower angle of cell; traces of a subterminal series of black points, a slight oblique dark shade from termen below apex; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing dark reddish brown, the cilia with fine pale line at base; the underside greyish suffused and irrorated with fuscous.[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.

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