Acrapex roseotincta

Acrapex roseotincta is a species of moth of the family Noctuidae first described by George Hampson in 1910.[1] It is found in Sri Lanka.

Acrapex roseotincta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Phylum:
Class:
Order:
Family:
Genus:
Species:
A. roseotincta
Binomial name
Acrapex roseotincta
Hampson, 1910

The wingspan is about 22 mm.[2]

Description

Head and thorax ochreous tinged with brown; abdomen ochreous white. Forewing pale oehreous yellow faintly tinged with rufous and the veins slightly streaked with rufous; a slight blackish streak below basal half of cell; some black scales at lower angle of cell; an oblique postmedial series of black points on veins 6 to 1; an oblique diffused rufous fascia from termen below apex to vein 3; a slight brown terminal line; cilia yellowish white with a faint brownish line through them. Hindwing white faintly tinged with ochreous; the underside white with the costal area tinged with ochreous.[2]

gollark: You claimed to be a qualified electrical engineer, see.
gollark: You can't say ? because you exploded.
gollark: Apparently the patent expired now, vaguely relatedly.
gollark: It's not the same as actually developing the entire standard, but it's something I guess.
gollark: > In the early 1990s, O'Sullivan led a team at the CSIRO which patented, in 1996, the use of a related technique for reducing multipath interference of radio signals transmitted for computer networking. This technology is a part of all recent WiFi implementationsAh, so they contributed somewhat to WiFi.

References

  1. Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae Archived 2009-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9
  2. Hampson, George F. (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum.


This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.