The Acantholipini are a
tribe
The term tribe is used in many different contexts to refer to a category of human social group. The predominant worldwide use of the term in English is in the discipline of anthropology. The definition is contested, in part due to conflict ...
of
moths
Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (suborder Rhopalocera) a ...
in the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...
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Genera
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Acantholipes
''Acantholipes'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer (entomologist), Julius Lederer in 1857.
Description
Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and a minute third joint. T ...
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Hypospila
''Hypospila'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Achille Guenée in 1852.
Species
* ''Hypospila bolinoides'' Guenée, 1852
* ''Hypospila brunnescens'' (Roepke, 1938)
* ''Hypospila contortalis'' (Mabille, 1880)
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Ugia
''Ugia'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1858.
Species
*''Ugia albilinea'' Hampson, 1926
*''Ugia albooculata'' (Saalmüller, 1880) (Madagascar)
*''Ugia amaponda'' (Felder & ...
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Ugiodes
''Ugiodes'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well ...
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References
* , 2010: Noctidae of the Socotra Archipelago (Yemen) with notes on the fauna of the southern Arabian Peninsula (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). ''Esperiana Buchreihe zu Entomologie'' Memoir 5: 172-241.
Erebinae
Moth tribes
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