Niaccaba

Niaccaba
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Niaccaba
Walker, 1866
Species: N. sumptualis
Binomial name
Niaccaba sumptualis
Walker, 1865

Niaccaba is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae first described by Francis Walker in 1866. Its single species, Niaccaba sumptualis, described by the same author one year earlier, is found in Sri Lanka,[1] the Ryukyu Islands and Borneo.[2][3]

Description

Palpi sickle shaped and reaching above vertex of head, with minute third joint. Antennae of male ciliated. Forewings with acute apex. The outer margin excurved at vein 4, then very oblique to outer angle. Veins 3 and 4 stalked and vein 6 from below angle of cell. Vein 7 arises from angle and veins 8 and 9 stalked from before angle. Vein 10 absent. Hindwings with excised outer margin between veins 6 and 4. Veins 3 and 4 stalked and vein 5 arises from near middle of discocellulars. Veins 6 and 7 from upper angle of cell.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  2. ↑ "ソトキボシコヤガ Niaccaba sumptualis Walker, 1866". Digital Moths of Japan. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  3. ↑ "Family Erebidae (1856 species)". Moths of Borneo. Retrieved 28 June 2018.
  4. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1895). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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