Anticoreura
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Notodontidae |
Tribe: | Dioptini |
Genus: | Anticoreura Prout, 1918 |
Species: | A. salmoni
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Binomial name | |
Anticoreura salmoni (H. Druce, 1885)
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Anticoreura is a monotypic moth genus of the family Notodontidae described by Prout in 1918. Its one species, Anticoreura salmoni, first described by Herbert Druce in 1885, is found in Colombia.[1]
Adults have dull, brownish-black forewings with a salmon-colored transverse band. The hindwings are iridescent blue with a dark gray fringe.
References
- ^ Savela, Markku (November 9, 2012). "Anticoreura salmoni (Druce, 1885)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved December 22, 2019.
- Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.