Aedia nigrescens

Aedia nigrescens
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Genus:	Aedia
Species:	A. nigrescens
Binomial name
	Aedia nigrescens; (Wallengren, 1856)
Synonyms
	Anophia nigrescens Wallengren, 1856; Melanephia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856);

Aedia nigrescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wallengren in 1856 in the genus Anophia.^[1] It was originally found in the Southern Africa, later Central and West Africa.^[2]

Taxonomy

The name Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) is a recombination, it is a homonym of Aedia nigrescens Grote & Robinson, 1866 which became a subjective synonym of Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)

References

^ Wallengren, Hans Daniel Johan (1856). Kafferlandets Macroleidopter-Fauna. Anteckningar i Zoologien. Berlingska Boktryckeriet – via Googlebooks.
^ "Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)". Digital African Moths. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

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[1] Wallengren, Hans Daniel Johan (1856). Kafferlandets Macroleidopter-Fauna. Anteckningar i Zoologien. Berlingska Boktryckeriet – via Googlebooks.

[2] "Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856)". Digital African Moths. Retrieved 25 August 2024.

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