Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Noctuidae Scientific name Acrapex metaphaea | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Acrapex Rank Species | |
Acrapex metaphaea 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.
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.