Focillopis

Focillopis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Catocalinae
Genus: Focillopis
Hampson, 1926[1]

Focillopis is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Type species: Focillopis eclipsia Hampson, 1926 This species is known only from West Africa.[2]

It has a wingspan of 35–41 mm, a chocolate brown head, antennae with short cilia, the thorax and abdomen are dark reddish brown or greyish brown. The basic colour of both wings is greyish-brown with a chocolate-brown patch at the costa.

This is the only species in this genus. 2 more species were described as Focillopis but where transferred to Catada by Lödl in 1999:[3]

References

  1. afromoths
  2. Hampson, G. F. 1926a. Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae of the subfamily Noctuinae (Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). - — :1–641
  3. Lödl, 2001, Notes on the genus Focillopis HAMPSON, 1926 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Quadrifina 4: 117- 124


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