Aedia nigrescens
| Aedia nigrescens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Aedia |
| Species: | A. nigrescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) | |
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Aedia nigrescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wallengren in 1856 in the genus Anophia.[1] It was originally found in the Southern Africa, later Central and West Africa.[2]
Taxonomy
The name Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) is a recombination, it is a homonym of Aedia nigrescens Grote & Robinson, 1866 which became a subjective synonym of Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)
References
- ^ Wallengren, Hans Daniel Johan (1856). Kafferlandets Macroleidopter-Fauna. Anteckningar i Zoologien. Berlingska Boktryckeriet – via Googlebooks.
- ^ "Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)". Digital African Moths. Retrieved 25 August 2024.