''Acanthofrontia'' is a genus of
erebid moths in the subfamily
Arctiinae
The Arctiinae (formerly called the family Arctiidae) are a large and diverse subfamily of moths with around 11,000 species found all over the world, including 6,000 neotropical species.Scoble, MJ. (1995). ''The Lepidoptera: Form, Function and D ...
with
Afrotropical
The Afrotropical realm is one of the Earth's eight biogeographic realms. It includes Sub-Saharan Africa, the southern Arabian Peninsula, the island of Madagascar, and the islands of the western Indian Ocean. It was formerly known as the Ethiopi ...
distribution.
It was described by
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist.
Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills ...
in 1910.
Species
As of November 2019, AfroMoths lists the following species:
* ''
Acanthofrontia anacantha''
Hampson, 1914
* ''
Acanthofrontia atricosta''
Hampson, 1918
* ''
Acanthofrontia bianulata''
(Wichgraf, 1922)
* ''
Acanthofrontia dicycla''
Hampson, 1918
* ''
Acanthofrontia frontalis''
(Strand, 1909)
* ''
Acanthofrontia lithosiana''
Hampson, 1910 -
type species
In International_Code_of_Zoological_Nomenclature, zoological nomenclature, a type species (''species typica'') is the species name with which the name of a genus or subgenus is considered to be permanently taxonomically associated, i.e., the spe ...
References
Lithosiini
Noctuoidea genera
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