Acantholipes Explained

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer in 1857.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and a minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Forewings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.^[1]

Species

• Acantholipes acephala Strand, 1912
• Acantholipes afar Laporte, 1991
• Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes canofusca Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010
• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858) (or Acantholipes circumdatus)
• Acantholipes curvilinea Leech, 1900
• Acantholipes germainae Laporte, 1991
• Acantholipes hypenoides Moore, 1881
• Acantholipes juba Swinhoe, 1902
• Acantholipes larentioides Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes namacensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Acantholipes plecopteroides Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes plumbeonitens Hampson, 1926
• Acantholipes regularis (Hübner, [1813])
• Acantholipes regulatrix Wiltshire, 1961
• Acantholipes semiaurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes similis Moore, 1879
• Acantholipes singularis Gerasimov, 1931
• Acantholipes tenuipoda Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes trajecta Walker, 1865
• Acantholipes transiens Berio, 1955
• Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
• Acantholipes zuboides (Montague, 1914)

Former species

• Acantholipes mesoscota Hampson, 1904

References

• Web site: Pitkin . Brian . Jenkins . Paul . amp . Search results Family: Noctuidae . Butterflies and Moths of the World . Natural History Museum, London.

Further reading

• Book: Noctuidae. Part 1 of Lepidopterorum catalogus. Lepidopterorum Catalogues New Series Fasc 118 Part 1. Robert W. Poole. illustrated. CRC Press. 1989. 978-0-916846-45-9.

Notes and References

1. Book: Hampson, G. F. . George Hampson

   . George Hampson . The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II . Taylor and Francis . 1894 . 520 . Biodiversity Heritage Library.