Acantholipes

Acantholipes
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Clade:	Euarthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Acantholipini
Genus:	Acantholipes Lederer, 1857[1]
Synonyms
Docela Walker, 1866 Isatoolna Nye, 1975 Lasionota Warren, 1912 Nolaseniola Strand, 1920

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Fore wings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.^[2]

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 (Guenee, 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

• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera genus database

Further reading

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