Aucha

Aucha
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Cobubathinae
Genus:	Aucha; Walker, 1858

Aucha is a genus of moths of the family Noctuidae.

Description

Its eyes are naked and without lashes. The proboscis is well developed. Palpi upturned and smoothly scaled, where the second joint reaching above vertex of head, and third joint short. Antennae simple. Thorax and abdomen without tufts and smoothly scaled. Tibia spineless. Forewings with non-crenulate cilia and hindwings produced at apex.^[1]

Species

Aucha melaleuca Berio, 1940
Aucha polyphaenoides (Wiltshire, 1961)
Aucha tenebricosa (Saalmüller, 1891)
Aucha triphaenoides Walker, 1865
Aucha velans Walker, [1858]
Aucha vesta Swinhoe, 1901

References

^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Aucha Walker, 1858". Afromoths. Retrieved January 13, 2019.
Savela, Markku. "Aucha Walker, [1858]". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 13, 2019.

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[1] Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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