Lacera

Genus of moths

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Lacera

Lacera alope
Scientific classification
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Tribe:  | Hulodini
Genus:  | Lacera
Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852[1]

Lacera is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852.

## Description

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Palpi with second joint reaching vertex of head and short third joint. Antennae of male minutely ciliated. Thorax and abdomen clothed with coarse hairy. Tibia very heavily tufted with hair. Forewings with arched apex and somewhat acute. The outer margin angled at center. Cilia crenulate. Hindwings with crenulate cilia. Margin produced to slight points at veins 4 and 6. Larva with four pairs of abdominal prolegs, where the first two pairs are aborted.[2]

## Species

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* Lacera alope Cramer, [1780]
* Lacera apicirupta Carcasson, 1965
* Lacera asinuosa Holloway, 1979
* Lacera azatothi Zilli & Hogenes, in lit
* Lacera contrasta Holloway, 1979
* Lacera nyarlathotepi Zilli & Holloway, in lit
* Lacera noctilio Fabricius, 1794
* Lacera procellosa Butler, 1879
* Lacera uniformis Holloway, 1979
* Lacera vinacea Holloway, 1979
* Lacera violacea Holloway, 1979

## Former species

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* Lacera capella Guenée, 1852
* Lacera sublineata Walker, 1865 (Daddala)

## References

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1. ^ Yu, Dicky Sick Ki. "Lacera Guenee 1852". Home of Ichneumonoidea. Taxapad. Archived from the original on December 20, 2018. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
2. ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis - via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

## External links

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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Lacera.

Wikispecies has information related to Lacera.

* Savela, Markku. "Lacera Guenée in Boisduval & Guenée, 1852". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 20, 2019.
* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Noctuidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.
* Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Lacera Guenée". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved January 20, 2019.

Taxon identifiers

Lacera|

* Wikidata: Q6468214
* AFD: Lacera
* BioLib: 651608
* BOLD: 64115
* ButMoth: 15287.0
* EoL: 68597
* GBIF: 1770109
* iNaturalist: 324326
* Insecta.pro: 30202
* IRMNG: 1345772
* LepIndex: 285730
* NCBI: 706068
* Open Tree of Life: 4258483

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