1. Taxonomy

2. Description

3. Species

4. References

Araeopteron is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. It was first described by George Hampson in 1893.

Taxonomy

The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Araeopteroninae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Acontiinae of the family Noctuidae.^[1][2]

Description

Palpi slender and sickle shaped, reaching just above the vertex of the head. Antennae almost simple. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia naked. Forewings rather long and narrow. The apex rounded. Veins 3, 4 and 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, whereas veins 6 arise from below angle of cell and vein 7 from angle. Hindwings with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked. Vein 5 from middle of discocellulars.^[3]

Species

• Araeopteron acidalica Hampson, 1910
• Araeopteron adeni Fibiger & Hacker, 2001
• Araeopteron alboniger Fibiger & Hacker, 2001
• Araeopteron amoena Inoue, 1958
• Araeopteron aulombardi Fibiger & Hacker, 2001
• Araeopteron betie Dyar, 1914
• Araeopteron canescens Walker, 1866
• Araeopteron diehli Fibiger, 2002
• Araeopteron ecphaea Hampson, 1914
• Araeopteron elam Schaus, 1911
• Araeopteron epiphracta Turner, 1902
• Araeopteron fasciale Hampson, 1896
• Araeopteron flaccida Inoue, 1958
• Araeopteron fragmenta Inoue, 1965
• Araeopteron goniophora Hampson, 1907
• Araeopteron griseata Hampson, 1907
• Araeopteron imbecilla Turner, 1933
• Araeopteron koreana Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008
• Araeopteron kurokoi Inoue, 1958
• Araeopteron leucoplaga Hampson, 1910
• Araeopteron makikoae Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008
• Araeopteron micraeola Meyrick, 1902
• Araeopteron microclyta Turner, 1920
• Araeopteron minimale Freyer, 1912
• Araeopteron nebulosa Inoue, 1965
• Araeopteron nivalis Hampson, 1907
• Araeopteron obliquifascia Joanis, 1910
• Araeopteron papaziani Guillermet, 2009
• Araeopteron patella Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008
• Araeopteron pictale Hampson, 1893
• Araeopteron pleurotypa Turner, 1902
• Araeopteron poliobapta Turner, 1925
• Araeopteron poliphaea Hampson, 1910
• Araeopteron proleuca Hampson, 1907
• Araeopteron rufescens Turner, 1910
• Araeopteron schreieri Fibiger & Hacker, 2001
• Araeopteron sterrhaoides Fibiger & Hacker, 2001
• Araeopteron ussurica Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008
• Araeopteron vilhelmina Dyar, 1916
• Araeopteron xanthopis Hampson, 1907
• Araeopteron yemeni Fibiger & Hacker, 2001

References

• Dyar (1914). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 47: 184.
• Dyar (1916). Proceedings of the United States National Museum 51: 18.
• Hampson (1893). Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum 9: 33.
• {{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1896 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180032#page/575/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma |volume=Moths Volume IV |page=543 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}
• Hampson (1907). Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 17: 670-672.
• Hampson (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: 22, fig. 9.
• Hampson (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: 27.
• Hampson (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: 29. pl. 149: 19.
• Hampson. Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(13): 167.
• Fibiger, M. (2002). Heterocera Sumatrana 12(3): 129.
• Fibiger, M. & Hacker, H.H. (2001). Esperiana Buchreie zur Entomologie 8: 1-944.
• Fibiger, M. & Kononenko, V. (2008). "A revision of the subfamily Araeopteroninae Fibiger, 2005 in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with a description of four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)." Zootaxa 1891: 39-54.
• Freyer (1912). Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Zool) 15(1): 11.
• Inoue (1958). Tinea 4: 229-230.
• Inoue (1965). Tinea 7: 81.
• Joanis (1910). Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France 1910: 201.
• Meyrick (1902). Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 35: 36.
• {{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |last-author-amp=yes |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
• Schaus (1911). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(8): 108
• Turner (1902). Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales 27: 132-133.
• Turner (1910). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 10: 27.
• Turner (1920). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 44: 161.
• Turner (1925). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 44: 39.
• Turner (1933). Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia 57: 161.
• Walker (1866). Illustrations of Typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum 34: 1318.

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