Dichromia

Dichromia
Dichromia legrosi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Subfamily: Hypeninae
Genus: Dichromia
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1854
Type species
Phalaena orosia Cramer, 1780[1]
Synonyms
  • Ametropalpis Mabille, 1884
  • Eugorna Holland, 1894
  • Camhypena Prout, 1927

Dichromia is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

Description

Palpi roughly scaled, where the second joint long and porrect. Third joint obliquely upturned and ending in a naked point. A sharp frontal tuft present. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Forewings with the depressed and slightly acute apex. Veins 8 and 9 anastomosing to form the areole. Hindwings with veins 3 and 4 from angle of cell. Vein 5 from below middle of discocellulars and veins 6 and 7 from upper angle.[2]

Species

Some species of this genus are:

References

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