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Genus Acroria

Acroria terens - Hodges #9562.1 - Acroria pulchra Acroria terens? - Acroria pulchra
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Classification
Kingdom Animalia (Animals)
Phylum Arthropoda (Arthropods)
Subphylum Hexapoda (Hexapods)
Class Insecta (Insects)
Order Lepidoptera (Butterflies and Moths)
Superfamily Noctuoidea (Owlet Moths and kin)
Family Noctuidae (Owlet Moths)
Subfamily Noctuinae (Cutworm or Dart Moths)
Tribe Dypterygiini
Genus Acroria
Synonyms and other taxonomic changes
Acroria Walker, 1858
syn. Alibama Möschler, 1886 [Poole (1989)]
Poole (1989) included Acroria in the subfamily Amphipyrinae.
Numbers
Acroria terens is the only member of the genus listed for America, north of Mexico. (1)
Print References
Walker, 1858. List of the species of the lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum, (15): 1730.
Works Cited
1.Annotated check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico.
Donald J. Lafontaine, B. Christian Schmidt. 2010. ZooKeys 40: 1–239 .