Anticoreura
| Anticoreura | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Notodontidae |
| Subfamily: | Dioptinae |
| Tribe: | Dioptini |
| Genus: | Anticoreura Prout, 1918 |
| Species: | A. salmoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Anticoreura salmoni (Druce, 1885) | |
| Synonyms | |
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Anticoreura is a genus of moths of the Notodontidae family. It consists of only one species, Anticoreura salmoni, which is found in Colombia.
Adults have dull, brownish-black forewings with a salmon-colored transverse band. The hindwings are iridescent blue with a dark gray fringe.
References
- Miller, J. S. 2009: Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 321: 1-674.
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