Mecodina

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Mecodina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Calpinae
Genus: Mecodina
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852
Synonyms
  • Boethantha Walker, 1865
  • Seneratia Moore, [1885]
  • Araeognatha Hampson, 1893

Mecodina is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.[1][2][3]

Description

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Palpi sickle shaped, where the second joint reaching vertex of head. Third joint long and naked. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Mid and hind tibia slightly fringed with hair on outer side. Forewing with rectangular apex. Areole usually narrow. Hindwings with vein 5 from close to lower angle of cell.[4]

Species

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References

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