Araeopteron

Araeopteron
Araeopteron papaziani
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Clade:	Pancrustacea
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Boletobiinae
Genus:	Araeopteron Hampson, 1893
Synonyms
Araeopterum Hampson, 1895 Essonistis Meyrick, 1902 Thelxinoa Turner, 1902 Araeoptera Hampson, 1910 Araeopterella Fibiger & Hacker, 2001

Araeopteron is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected 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. A recent overview of the diversity is given by Han & Kononenko (2021).

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.

Species

Former species

• Araeopteron vilhelmina Dyar, 1916 (now in Sigela)

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.
• 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. (1914). Descriptions of new genera and species of Noctuidae (continued). Annals and Magazine of Natural History 8(13): 146-175.
• Han & Kononenko (2021). [See under main references]
• 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.
• 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.