Acantholipes

Acantholipes
File:Acantholipes trimeni.jpg
Acantholipes trimeni
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Tribe:	Acantholipini
Genus:	Acantholipes Lederer, 1857
Synonyms
Docela Walker, 1866 Isatoolna Nye, 1975 Lasionota Warren, 1912 Nolaseniola Strand, 1920

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer in 1857.

Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and a minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Forewings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.

Species

• Acantholipes acephala Strand, 1912
• Acantholipes afar Laporte, 1991
• Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes canofusca Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010
• Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858) (or Acantholipes circumdatus)
• Acantholipes curvilinea Leech, 1900
• Acantholipes germainae Laporte, 1991
• Acantholipes hypenoides Moore, 1881
• Acantholipes juba Swinhoe, 1902
• Acantholipes larentioides Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes namacensis (Guenée, 1852)
• Acantholipes plecopteroides Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes plumbeonitens Hampson, 1926
• Acantholipes regularis (Hübner, [1813])
• Acantholipes regulatrix Wiltshire, 1961
• Acantholipes semiaurea Berio, 1966
• Acantholipes similis Moore, 1879
• Acantholipes singularis Gerasimov, 1931
• Acantholipes tenuipoda Strand, 1920
• Acantholipes trajecta Walker, 1865
• Acantholipes transiens Berio, 1955
• Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
• Acantholipes zuboides (Montague, 1914)

Former species

• Acantholipes mesoscota Hampson, 1904