Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Acrapex leucophlebia | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Acrapex Rank Species | |
Acrapex leucophlebia is a species of moth of the Noctuidae family. It is found in the Nilgiri mountains in India.
The wingspan is 26–32 mm.
Description
Head and thorax ocherous mixed with brown; abdomen ocherous white slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. Forewing ocherous 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 fold 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. Hindwing ocherous white tinged with reddish brown except on costal area; cilia ocherous white; the underside ocherous white slightly tinged with red brown.