Aquita

Short description: Genus of moths

Aquita

Aquita plagiochyta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Nolidae
Subfamily:  | Nolinae
Genus:  | Aquita
Walker, 1863
Synonyms[1]

* Zia Walker, 1863

Aquita is a genus of moths in the family Nolidae.

## Species

* Aquita acontioides (Walker, 1862)
* Aquita capnodes (Wileman and West, 1928)
* Aquita ectrocta (Hampson, 1907)
* Aquita grisea (Hampson, 1914)
* Aquita hemiphaea (Hampson, 1905)
* Aquita laminata (Hampson, 1891) (syn: Aquita rufescens (Hampson, 1894))
* Aquita leucobaeta (Wileman and West, 1928)
* Aquita plagiochyta (Turner, 1944)
* Aquita scoparialis (Wileman and West, 1928)
* Aquita seria Holloway, 2003
* Aquita tactalis (Walker, 1863) (syn: Aquita horridella Walker, 1863)

Aquita lunisigna (Hampson, 1898) is now known as Barasa lunisigna.

## References

1. ↑ Zia at Butterflies and Moths of the World, Natural History Museum

* Poole, R. W. (1989). Lepidopterorum Catalogus (New Series) Fascicle 118, Noctuidae. CRC Press. ISBN 0-916846-45-8, ISBN 978-0-916846-45-9.

## External links

* Aquita at funet
* Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 109. https://archive.org/details/listspecimensle08graygoog. Retrieved 27 November 2012.

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