{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | taxon = Anachrostis | image_caption = Genus of Anachrostis | image = A32-20120523-P050_(7653959194).jpg | authority = Hampson, 1893 }}
'''''Anachrostis''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae.
==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Catocalinae of the family Noctuidae.<ref name="Z+2011">{{cite journal|last1=Zahiri|first1=Reza |title=Molecular phylogenetics of Erebidae (Lepidoptera, Noctuoidea)|journal=Systematic Entomology|date=2011|doi=10.1111/j.1365-3113.2011.00607.x|display-authors=etal|doi-access=free}}</ref>
==Description== Palpi upturned with second joint reaching vertex of head. Antennae minutely ciliated. Forewings with vein 5 angle of cell. Vein 6 from below upper angle and vein 7 from the angle. Veins 8 and 10 stalked and vein 9 absent. Hindwings with stalked veins 3 and 4, whereas vein 5 absent.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180400#page/5/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II |publisher=Taylor and Francis |year=1894 |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>
==Species== *''Anachrostis amamiana'' <small>Sugi, 1982</small> *''Anachrostis fulvicilia'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> *''Anachrostis indistincta'' <small>Wileman & South, 1917</small> *''Anachrostis marginata'' <small>Wileman & South, 1917</small> *''Anachrostis metaphaea'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> *''Anachrostis minutissima'' <small>Sugi, 1982</small> *''Anachrostis nigripuncta'' <small>Hampson, 1893</small> *''Anachrostis nigripunctalis'' <small>(Wileman, 1911)</small> *''Anachrostis ochracea'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> *''Anachrostis rufula'' <small>Hampson, 1926</small> *''Anachrostis siccana'' <small>(Walker, 1863)</small> *''Anachrostis straminea'' <small>Rothschild, 1915</small>
==References== {{Reflist}} *{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Noctuidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Noctuidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}
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Category:Hypenodinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by George Hampson
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