Acontia (Acontia) catena

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Noctuidae
Subfamilia: Acontiinae
Tribus: Acontiini
Genus: Acontia
Subgenus: Acontia (Acontia)
Species: Acontia (Acontia) catena

Name

Acontia (Acontia) catena (Sowerby, 1805)

Type locality: England, Surrey, Brixton.

Holotype: not preserved.

Synonyms

• Phalaena catena Sowerby, 1805
• Desmophora elegans Stephens, 1829, Illustrations of British Entomology 2: 109. TL: England, Surrey, Brixton. Unjustified objective replacement name of Phalaena catena Stephens, 1805 (Poole, 1989)

References

• Sowerby, 1805, The British Miscellany: or Coloured Figures of New, Rare, or Little Known Annimal Sunjects; Many not Before Ascertained to be inhabitants of the British Isles Part 4, p. 29, pl. 14.
• Hacker, H.H., A. Legrain & M. Fibiger, 2008, Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae) Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Band 14: 7–533.