Acontia sexpunctata

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: Emmelia
Species: Acontia sexpunctata

Acontia sexpunctata (Fabricius, 1794, 1794)

Type locality: Monspeliae.

Holotype: ZMUC. male ♂.

Pyralis sexpunctata Fabricius, 1794: 245 (original combination)
Acontia acerba Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Reise Öster. Fregatte Novara, Zool. 2 (2/2), pl. 108, fig. 25.
- Type locality: India or Bangladesh.
- Holotype: female. BMNH.
Acontia inda Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874, Reise Öster. Fregatte Novara, Zool. 2 (2/2), pl. 108, fig. 23.
- Type locality: India or Bangladesh.
- Holotype: male. BMNH.
Acontia imbuta Walker, 1865, List. Spec. Lep. Ins. Colln. Br. Mus. 12: 798.
- Type locality: India, Hindostan.
- Holotype: female. BMNH. 43-43. leg. Clerck.
Tarache sexpunctata ochreola Warren, 1913, Die Gross-Schmetterlinge des Indo-Australischen Faunengebietes, Eulenartige Nachtfalter: 303.
- Type locality: India, Nilgiri Hills.
Tarache disrupta Warren, 1913 in Seitz. (synonymized by Chen et al. 2012: 277).

Chen, F.Q., Yang, C. & Xue, D.Y. 2012: A taxonomic study of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae) from China. Entomotaxonomia 34(2): 275–283. Reference page.
Fabricius, J.C. 1794. Entomologia Systematica emendata et aucta. Secundun classes, ordines, genera, species, adjectis synonimis, locis, observationibus, descriptionibus. Tomus III. Pars II. C. G. Proft, Hafniae, 349 pp. BHL. Reference page.
Hacker, H.H., Legrain, A. & Fibiger, M. 2008. Revision of the genus Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the tribus Acontiini Guenée, 1841 (Old World) (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae: Acontiinae). Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie 14: 7–533. Reference page.