Aegocera

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

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

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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