Lacera

Lacera
Lacera alope
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Hulodini
Genus: Lacera
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852[1]

Lacera is a genus of moths of the Erebidae family.

Description

Palpi with second joint reaching vertex of head and short third joint. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hairy. Tibia very heavily tufted with hair. Fore wings with arched apex and somewhat acute. The outer margin angled at center. Cilia crenulate. Hind wings with crenulate cilia. Margin produced to slight points at veins 4 and 6. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are aborted.[2]

Species

Former species

References

  1. taxapad.com
  2. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-ii". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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