Acylita distincta
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Noctuidae |
| Genus: | Acylita |
| Species: | A. distincta |
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| Acylita distincta E. D. Jones, 1908 | |
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Acylita distincta [1] is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by E. Dukinfield Jones in 1908. It is found in Brazil. Its wingspan is about 26 mm.[2]
Description
Head and thorax brownish ochreous; pectus and hindlegs whitish, fore and mid legs and hind tarsi at extremity fuscous brown; abdomen white tinged with ochreous and slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous. Forewing brownish ochreous sparsely irrorated with black; black points in middle of cell and on discocellulars; slight fuscous points above and below submedian fold just beyond middle; a faint, diffused oblique fuscous streak from apex to just beyond discoidal point and a diffused oblique subtertninal line from below apex to submedian fold; a terminal series of black points. Hindwing white suffused with ochreous except on inner area; cilia white; the underside white, the costal area suffused with ochreous and slightly irrorated with brown.[3]
References
- ^ Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
- ^ Hampson, George F. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.
- ^ Hampson, George F. (1910) Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.
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