Araeopteron

{{Short description|Genus of moths}} {{Automatic taxobox | image = Noctuidae-Acontiinae-Araeopteron papaziani 001.JPG | image_caption = ''Araeopteron papaziani'' | taxon = Araeopteron | authority = Hampson, 1893 | synonyms = *''Araeopterum'' Hampson, 1895 *''Essonistis'' Meyrick, 1902 *''Thelxinoa'' Turner, 1902 *''Araeoptera'' Hampson, 1910 *''Araeopterella'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 | synonyms_ref = <ref>{{cite web |editor-last=Savela |editor-first=Markku |date=June 14, 2020 |url=https://www.nic.funet.fi/pub/sci/bio/life/insecta/lepidoptera/ditrysia/noctuoidea/erebidae/boletobiinae/araeopteron/ |title=''Araeopteron'' Hampson, 1893 |website=Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms |accessdate=October 6, 2020}}</ref> }}

'''''Araeopteron''''' is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1893.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |date=November 5, 2004 |url=https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusDetails.dsml?NUMBER=2403.0 |title=''Araeopteron'' Hampson, 1893 |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London |accessdate=October 6, 2020}}</ref>

==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Araeopteroninae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Acontiinae 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|volume=37|pages=102–124|s2cid=84249695|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name=LS2013>{{cite journal|last1=Lafontaine|first1=J. Donald|last2=Schmidt|first2=B. Christian|title=Additions and corrections to the check list of the Noctuoidea (Insecta, Lepidoptera) of North America north of Mexico|journal=ZooKeys|date=2013|issue=264|doi=10.3897/zookeys.264.4443|url=https://zookeys.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=3652|pmc=3668382|pmid=23730184|pages=227–236|doi-access=free|bibcode=2013ZooK..264..227L }}</ref> A recent overview of the diversity is given by Han & Kononenko (2021).<ref name="Han2021">{{Cite journal|last1=Han|first1=Hui. L.|last2=Kononenko|first2=Vladimir. S.|date=2021|title=Three new species of the genus ''Araeopteron'' Hampson, 1893 (Lepidoptera, Erebidae, Boletobiinae) from the Xizang Autonomous Region, China with an updated list of the world species|journal=ZooKeys|issue=1060|pages=17–32|doi=10.3897/zookeys.1060.67674|doi-access=free |pmid=34616202 |bibcode=2021ZooK.1060...17H |issn=|url=https://archive.org/details/threenewspecies1060hanh|language=en|pmc=8458265}}</ref>

==Description== Palpi slender and sickle shaped, reaching just above the vertex of the head. Antennae almost simple. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Tibia naked. Forewings rather long and narrow. The apex rounded. Veins 3, 4 and 8, 9, 10, 11 stalked, whereas veins 6 arise from below angle of cell and vein 7 from angle. Hindwings with veins 3, 4 and 6, 7 stalked. Vein 5 from middle of discocellulars.<ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1895 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180173#page/3/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume III |volume=Moths - III |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Hampson |first=G. F. |authorlink=George Hampson |date=1896 |url=https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/item/180032#page/575/mode/1up |title=The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume IV |volume=Moths - IV |page=543 |publisher=Taylor and Francis |via=Biodiversity Heritage Library}}</ref>

==Species== {{columns-list |colwidth=20em | * ''Araeopteron acidalica'' Hampson, 1910 * ''Araeopteron adeni'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 * ''Araeopteron alboniger'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 * ''Araeopteron amoena'' Inoue, 1958 * ''Araeopteron aulombardi'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 * ''Araeopteron betie'' Dyar, 1914 * ''Araeopteron canescens'' Walker, 1866 * ''Araeopteron dawai'' Han & Kononenko, 2021 * ''Araeopteron diehli'' Fibiger, 2002 * ''Araeopteron ecphaea'' Hampson, 1914 * ''Araeopteron elam'' Schaus, 1911 * ''Araeopteron epiphracta'' Turner, 1902 * ''Araeopteron fasciale'' Hampson, 1896 * ''Araeopteron flaccida'' Inoue, 1958 * ''Araeopteron fragmenta'' Inoue, 1965 * ''Araeopteron goniophora'' Hampson, 1907 * ''Araeopteron griseata'' Hampson, 1907 * ''Araeopteron imbecilla'' Turner, 1933 * ''Araeopteron koreana'' Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008 * ''Araeopteron kurokoi'' Inoue, 1958 * ''Araeopteron legraini'' Bippus, 2018 * ''Araeopteron leucoplaga'' Hampson, 1910 * ''Araeopteron makikoae'' Fibiger & Kononenko, 2008 * ''Araeopteron medogensis'' Han & Kononenko, 2021 * ''Araeopteron micraeola'' (Meyrick, 1902 * ''Araeopteron microclyta'' Turner, 1920 * ''Araeopteron minimale'' Freyer, 1912 * ''Araeopteron nebulosa'' Inoue, 1965 * ''Araeopteron nivalis'' Hampson, 1907 * ''Araeopteron obliquifascia'' Joanis, 1910 * ''Araeopteron papaziani'' Guillermet, 2009 * ''Araeopteron pictale'' Hampson, 1893 * ''Araeopteron pleurotypa'' Turner, 1902 * ''Araeopteron poliobapta'' Turner, 1925 * ''Araeopteron poliophaea'' (Hampson, 1910) * ''Araeopteron proleuca'' Hampson, 1907 * ''Araeopteron rufescens'' Turner, 1910 * ''Araeopteron schreieri'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 * ''Araeopteron sterrhaoides'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 * ''Araeopteron tibeta'' Han & Kononenko, 2021 * ''Araeopteron xanthopis'' Hampson, 1907 * ''Araeopteron yemeni'' Fibiger & Hacker, 2001 }} ==Former species== * ''Araeopteron vilhelmina'' Dyar, 1916 (now in ''Sigela'')

==References== {{Reflist}} * Dyar (1914). ''Proceedings of the United States National Museum'' 47: 184. * Dyar (1916). ''Proceedings of the United States National Museum'' 51: 18. * Hampson (1893). ''Illustrations of Typical Specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum'' 9: 33. * Hampson (1907). ''Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society'' 17: 670–672. * Hampson (1910). ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' 10: 22, fig. 9. * Hampson (1910). ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' 10: 27. * Hampson (1910). ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' 10: 29. pl. 149: 19. * Hampson. (1914). Descriptions of new genera and species of Noctuidae (continued). ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' 8(13): 146-175. * Han & Kononenko (2021). [See under main references] * Fibiger, M. (2002). ''Heterocera Sumatrana'' 12(3): 129. * Fibiger, M. & Hacker, H.H. (2001). ''Esperiana Buchreie zur Entomologie'' 8: 1–944. * Fibiger, M. & Kononenko, V. (2008). "A revision of the subfamily Araeopteroninae Fibiger, 2005 in the Russian Far East and neighbouring countries with a description of four new species (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae)." ''Zootaxa'' 1891: 39–54. * Freyer (1912). ''Transactions of the Linnean Society of London (Zool)'' 15(1): 11. * Inoue (1958). ''Tinea'' 4: 229–230. * Inoue (1965). ''Tinea'' 7: 81. * Joanis (1910). ''Bulletin de la Société Entomologique de France'' 1910: 201. * Meyrick (1902). ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London'' 35: 36. * Schaus (1911). ''Annals and Magazine of Natural History'' 8(8): 108 * Turner (1902). ''Proceedings of the Linnean Society of New South Wales'' 27: 132–133. * Turner (1910). ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' 10: 27. * Turner (1920). ''Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia'' 44: 161. * Turner (1925). ''Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia'' 44: 39. * Turner (1933). ''Transactions and Proceedings of the Royal Society of South Australia'' 57: 161. * Walker (1866). ''Illustrations of Typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the British Museum'' 34: 1318.

Category:Boletobiinae Category:Noctuoidea genera Category:Taxa named by George Hampson