Focillopis
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| Genus: | Focillopis Hampson, 1926[1]
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Focillopis is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.
Type species: Focillopis eclipsia Hampson, 1926 This species is known only from West Africa.[2]
It has a wingspan of 35–41 mm, a chocolate brown head, antennae with short cilia, the thorax and abdomen are dark reddish brown or greyish brown. The basic colour of both wings is greyish-brown with a chocolate-brown patch at the costa.
This is the only species in this genus. 2 more species were described as Focillopis but where transferred to Catada by Lödl in 1999:[3]
- Catada antevorta (Viette, 1958)
- Catada dichroana (Viette, 1958)
References
- ^ afromoths
- ^ Hampson, G. F. 1926a. Descriptions of new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae of the subfamily Noctuinae (Noctuidae) in the British Museum (Natural History). - — :1–641
- ^ Lödl, 2001, Notes on the genus Focillopis HAMPSON, 1926 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Catocalinae). Quadrifina 4: 117- 124
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