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Acantholipes

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Family
  
Erebidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Superfamily
  
Noctuoidea

Tribe
  
Acantholipini

Lower classifications
  
Acantholipes regularis, Acantholipes circumdata

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the Erebidae family.

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Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Fore wings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.

Species

  • Acantholipes acephala Strand, 1912
  • Acantholipes afar Laporte, 1991
  • Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
  • Acantholipes canofusca Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010
  • Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858) (or Acantholipes circumdatus)
  • Acantholipes curvilinea Leech, 1900
  • Acantholipes germainae Laporte, 1991
  • Acantholipes hypenoides Moore, 1881
  • Acantholipes juba Swinhoe, 1902
  • Acantholipes larentioides Strand, 1920
  • Acantholipes namacensis (Guenee, 1852)
  • Acantholipes plecopteroides Strand, 1920
  • Acantholipes plumbeonitens Hampson, 1926
  • Acantholipes regularis (Hübner, [1813])
  • Acantholipes regulatrix Wiltshire, 1961
  • Acantholipes semiaurea Berio, 1966
  • Acantholipes similis Moore, 1879
  • Acantholipes singularis Gerasimov, 1931
  • Acantholipes tenuipoda Strand, 1920
  • Acantholipes trajecta Walker, 1865
  • Acantholipes transiens Berio, 1955
  • Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
  • Acantholipes zuboides (Montague, 1914)
  • Former species

  • Acantholipes mesoscota Hampson, 1904
  • References

    Acantholipes Wikipedia