Aedia nigrescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wallengren in 1856 in the genus Anophia.[1] It was originally found in the Southern Africa, later Central and West Africa.[2]
The name Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) is a recombination, it is a homonym of Aedia nigrescens Grote & Robinson, 1866 which became a subjective synonym of Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)