Aegocera
Aegocera venulia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Agaristinae
Genus: Aegocera
Latreille, 1809

Aegocera is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae first described by Pierre André Latreille in 1809.

Description

Palpi with second joint clothed with long hair. Antennae strongly dilated distally. Forewings with veins 3, 4, and 5 from close to angle of cell and vein 6 from upper angle. Veins 9 and 10 anastomosing with 7 and 8 to form areole. Hindwings lack vein 5.[1]

Species

  • Aegocera anthina Jordan, 1926
  • Aegocera bettsi Wiltshire, 1988
  • Aegocera brevivitta Hampson, 1901
  • Aegocera bimacula Walker, 1854
  • Aegocera ferrugo Jordan, 1926
  • Aegocera fervida (Walker, 1854)
  • Aegocera geometrica Hampson, 1910
  • Aegocera humphreyi (Hampson, 1911)
  • Aegocera jordani Kiriakoff, 1955
  • Aegocera menete (Cramer, 1775)
  • Aegocera naveli Le Cerf, 1922
  • Aegocera obliqua Mabille, 1893
  • Aegocera rectilinea Boisduval, 1836
  • Aegocera tigrina (Druce, 1882)
  • Aegocera tricolora Bethune-Baker, 1909
  • Aegocera tripartita Kirby, 1880
  • Aegocera venulia Cramer, [1777]

References

  1. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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