Biology:Acylita elongata

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Short description: Species of moth

Acylita elongata
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Scientific classification
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A. elongata
Binomial name
Acylita elongata
Schaus, 1906
Synonyms
  • Doryodes elongata

Acylita elongata is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by William Schaus in 1906.[1] It is found in Brazil . Its wingspan is about 34 mm.[2]

Description

Head and thorax white suffused with brown; palpi pale yellow tinged with red at sides; pectus and legs ochreous tinged with brown; abdomen ochreous slightly irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. Forewing white suffused with pink especially on inner and terminal areas and slightly irrorated with brown; the costal edge white; the veins of terminal area slightly streaked with white; a faint brown fascia from base through the cell and thence obliquely to termen just below apex; a dark point in middle of cell; a terminal series of minute dark points. Hindwing white very faintly tinged with brown; the underside with the costa faintly tinged with pink and slightly irrorated with brown.[2]

References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae . CRC Press. ISBN:0-916846-45-8, ISBN:978-0-916846-45-9
  2. 2.0 2.1 Hampson, George F. (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.

Wikidata ☰ Q4678010 entry