Acidon is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1896.[1][2][3]
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| A. pseudohypena | |
Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Acidon Hampson, 1896 |
| Type species | |
| Acidon paradoxa Hampson, 1896
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Species
editSome species of this genus are:[4][5]
- Acidon albolineata (Hampson, 1895) - India and Bhutan
- Acidon bigrammica (Saalmüller, 1880) - Madagascar
- Acidon evae Lödl, 1998 - India, Hong Kong
- Acidon hemiphaea (Hampson 1906) - India
- Acidon mariae Lödl, 1998 - Java and Malaysia
- Acidon mediobrunnea (Holloway, 1976) - Borneo
- Acidon nigrobasis (Hampson, 1895) - India and Sri Lanka, Borneo
- Acidon obscurobasalis (Saalmüller, 1880) - Madagascar
- Acidon paradoxa Hampson, 1896 - Bhutan
- Acidon sabada (Swinhoe, 1905) - Malaysia
- Acidon steniptera (Hampson, 1902) - India
- Acidon rectilineata (Hampson, 1896) - India
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku (March 4, 2012). "Acidon Hampson, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Acidon". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Acidon Hampson, 1896". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
- ^ Lödl, M. (1998). "Revision der Gattungen Acidon Hampson, 1896 und Hiaspis Walker, [1866] 1865 subfam.comb.n. (Lepidoptera. Noctuidae. Hypeninae)". Quadrifina. 1: 25–62. (in German)
- ^ Lödl, M. (1999). "Additions to the revision of the genus Acidon Hampson, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae Hypeninae)". Quadrifina. 2 :135-136. (in German)
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