Moths of Africa 3
Acontiinae (Noctuidae)
Editor: Hermann H. Hacker
Authors of volume 3: Hermann H. Hacker, Ralf Fiebig, Barry Goater, Martin Lödl, Aidas Saldaitis, Hans-Peter Schreier, Dirk Stadie and Hermann Staude
695 pp., in colour throughout, 248 plates
374 African species: descriptions and colour illustrations; figures of features of genitalia of both sexes; distribution maps; biogeographical categories; DNA sequences.
Colour Plates: Ralf Fiebig, Dirk Stadie
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SBN: 978-3-9820357-3-4
Date of issue: 21. September 2022
Newly described taxa:
5 genera:
Rabilacta gen. nov. Hacker
Dysacontia gen. nov. Hacker
Madacontia gen. nov. Hacker
Cyclophaeata gen. nov. Hacker
Lacteosura gen. nov. Hacker
3 subgenera:
Torremelia subgen. nov. Hacker
Eublemmelia subgen. nov. Hacker
Aedicontia subgen. nov. Hacker
32 species:
39 Acontia quartrigona spec. nov. Hacker
73 Acontia singularis spec. nov. Hacker
74a Acontia frici spec. nov. Hacker & Stadie
129 Emmelia erythrochrysa spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
145 Emmelia simplicior spec. nov. Hacker
162 Epharmottomena abdalkuri spec. nov. Hacker & Saldaitis
190 Megalodes mayrtonii spec. nov. Hacker
201 Paracroria lignosa spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
201a Paracroria pulcherima spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
215 Madacontia ankarana spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
220 Cirrodes porphyronea spec. nov. Hacker
227 Rhodotarache stangelmaieri spec. nov. Hacker
228 Rhodotarache coffeana spec. nov. Hacker & Schreier
235 Cyclopera jansei spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig, Schreier & Stadie
236 Cyclopera horribilis spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
237 Cyclophaeata ramulus spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig, Schreier & Stadie
241 Selenistis porphyrella spec. nov. Hacker
242 Selenistis etosha spec. nov. Hacker
261a Tumidifrontia heinrichi spec. nov. Hacker
264 Procrateria silvicola spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig, Stadie & Schreier
265 Procrateria sebastiani spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
271 Lacteosura monochroma spec. nov. Hacker
279 Amefrontia amydropolia spec. nov. Hacker & Stadie
282a Hadjina karoo spec. nov. Hacker
297 Ethiopica erythra spec. nov. Hacker
324 Aedia cryptalis spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
325 Aedia serratulina spec. nov. Hacker
332 Aedia aculeata spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
346 Aedia parvistriga spec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
356 Aedia peculiaris spec. nov. Hacker
367 Aedia megapolia spec. nov. Hacker
Ecpatia turneri spec. nov. Hacker
6 subspecies:
200 Paracroria major miombo subspec. nov. Hacker & Fiebig
264 Procrateria silvicola occidentalis subspec. nov. Hacker, Fiebig & Stadie
347 Aedia iridocosma bittermanni subspec. nov. Hacker
347 Aedia iridocosma occidens subspec. nov. Hacker
347 Aedia iridocosma guineana subspec. nov. Hacker
353 Aedia poliochroa myophysa subspec. nov. Hacker