Acontiola Explained

Acontiola is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae. The genus was described by Staudinger in 1900.^[1]

It is considered by Butterflies and Moths of the World to be a synonym of Ozarba Walker, 1865.^[2]

Species

• Acontiola acclivis (Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874) South Africa, Namibia
• Acontiola binorbis (Hampson, 1910) South Africa, Zimbabwe
• Acontiola boursini (Berio, 1940) Somalia, Ethiopia
• Acontiola chryseiplaga (Hampson, 1910) Zaire
• Acontiola cryptochrysea (Hampson, 1902) Madagascar, Mozambique, South Africa
• Acontiola cyanopasta (Hampson, 1910) South Africa, Namibia
• Acontiola densa (Walker, 1865) South Africa, Namibia
• Acontiola diplogramma (Hampson, 1902) South Africa
• Acontiola divisa (Gaede, 1916) Tanzania
• Acontiola epimochla (Bethune-Baker, 1911) Nigeria
• Acontiola festiva (Berio, 1950) South Africa
• Acontiola gobabis (Berio, 1940) Zaire, ..., Namibia
• Acontiola heliastis (Hampson, 1902) Arabia, Somalia, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Tanzania, Botswana, Zambia, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Gambia, Cameroon
• Acontiola hemichrysea (Hampson, 1910) Zaire
• Acontiola hypoxantha (Wallengren, 1860) Kenya, Uganda, Mozambique, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia
• Acontiola implicata (Berio, 1940) Tanzania, South Africa
• Acontiola incognita (Berio, 1954) Madagascar
• Acontiola lascivalis (Lederer, 1855) south-eastern Europe
• Acontiola metachrysea (Hampson, 1910) Zimbabwe
• Acontiola moldavicola (Herrich-Schäffer, [1851]) south-eastern Europe, Iraq
• Acontiola parvula (Berio, 1940) Somalia, Ethiopia
• Acontiola punctithorax (Berio, 1940) South Africa
• Acontiola rosescens (Hampson, 1910) eastern Zaire, Uganda, Burundi, Kenya
• Acontiola ruperti Behounek & Speidel, 2015 Zambia
• Acontiola sancta Staudinger, 1900 Lebanon, Palestine, Iran, Arabia, Chad, Sudan, Somalia, Kenya, Tanzania, Namibia
• Acontiola separabilis (Berio, 1940) Eritrea, South Africa
• Acontiola subterminalis (Hampson, 1910) Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Zambia, South Africa
• Acontiola subtilimba (Berio, 1963) Mauritania, eastern Zaire, Uganda, Kenya
• Acontiola varia (Walker, 1865) Yemen, Kenya, Botswana, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Namibia, Angola
• Acontiola vultuosa (Distant, 1898) Zimbabwe, Mozambique, South Africa

Notes and References

1. Web site: Savela . Markku . September 25, 2019 . Acontiola Staudinger, 1900 . Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms . September 30, 2020.
2. Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . November 5, 2004 . Acontiola Staudinger, 1900 . Butterflies and Moths of the World . . 10.5519/s93616qw . September 30, 2020.