Acronicta (Jocheaera), Hubner
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https://doi.org/ 10.11646/zootaxa.2678.1.2 |
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https://treatment.plazi.org/id/5572A172-FFB3-5B6A-FF27-525C96609719 |
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Felipe |
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Acronicta (Jocheaera) |
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Subgenus Jocheaera Hübner View in CoL
Jocheaera Hübner, [1820] 1816 , Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge: 201. Type-species: Phalaena alni Linnaeus, 1767 [Europe].
Medium sized moths, wing colour brown-grey with characteristic dark brown suffusion in medial shade and along inner margin of wing. In male genitalia, uncus moderate, juxta plate-like, V-shaped; sacculus moderate; harpe curved, large, exceeding costal margin of valva; the ventral margin of valva beyond harpe with wide, long sclerotised edge, quadrangular at apex, with short pointed extension on the tip. Aedeagus moderate; vesica tubular, relatively large, with field of moderate, thin cornuti. The subgenus includes the Palaearctic Acronicta (Jocheaera) alni (Lnnaeus, 1758) , its Nearctic counterpart Acronicta (Jocheaera) funeralis (Grote & Robinson, 1866) and a new species, described below.
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