Acidon

Acidon is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1896.[1][2][3]

Acidon
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Hypeninae
Genus:	Acidon Hampson, 1896
Type species
Acidon paradoxa Hampson, 1896

Species

Some species of this genus are:[4] [5]

• Acidon albolineata (Hampson, 1895) (from India and Bhutan)
• Acidon bigrammica (Saalmüller, 1880) (from Madagascar)
• Acidon evae Lödl, 1998 (from India, Hong Kong)
• Acidon hemiphaea (Hampson 1906) (from India)
• Acidon mariae Lödl, (from Java and Malaysia)
• Acidon mediobrunnea (Holloway, 1976) (from Borneo)
• Acidon nigribasis (Hampson, 1895) (India and Sri Lanka, Borneo)
• Acidon obscurobasalis (Saalmüller, 1880) (from Madagascar)
• Acidon paradoxa Hampson, 1896 (from Bhutan)
• Acidon sabada (Swinhoe, 1905 (from Malaysia)
• Acidon steniptera (Hampson, 1902) (from India)
• Acidon rectilineata (Hampson, 1896) (from India)

References

1. Savela, Markku (March 4, 2012). "Acidon Hampson, 1896". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
2. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Acidon". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
3. Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul (November 5, 2004). "Acidon Hampson, 1896". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London. Retrieved February 15, 2020.
4. Lödl, M. (1998). "Revision der Gattungen Acidon Hampson, 1896 und Hiaspis Walker, [1866] 1865 subfam.comb.n. (Lepidoptera. Noctuidae. Hypeninae)". Quadrifina. 1: 25-62. (in German)
5. Lödl, M. (1999). "Additions to the revision of the genus Acidon Hampson, 1896 (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae Hypeninae)". Quadrifina. 2 :135-136. (in German)