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Focillopis

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Noctuidae

Rank
  
Genus

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Subfamily
  
Catocalinae

Focillopis is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

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

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:

  • Catada antevorta (Viette, 1958)
  • Catada dichroana (Viette, 1958)
  • References

    Focillopis Wikipedia


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