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Acronicta psi (Linnaeus, 1758)

Fetnassi, Nidal, Er-rguibi, Omar, Aglagane, Abdessamad, Ghamizi, Mohamed & Õunap, Erki, 2025, Updates to the checklist of nocturnal Macroheterocera (Lepidoptera) of the Central High Atlas of Morocco: One new species added for Morocco, Biodiversity Data Journal 13, pp. e 137839-e 137839 : e137839-

publication ID

 https://doi.org/10.3897/BDJ.13.e137839

DOI

 https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.14761688

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scientific name

 Acronicta psi (Linnaeus, 1758)
status

 

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Notes

According to Rungs (1981), one caterpillar had been collected by Walker (1890) and, since then, the species had not been recorded in Morocco. Rungs (1981) also noted that the species bears a close resemblance to A. radoti ( Le Cerf, 1924) , which has been described from Morocco. According to the same author, there was a possibility that Walker had collected A. radoti instead of A. psi , given the uncertainty surrounding the occurrence of A. psi in Morocco during that period. Our specimens (n = 2) were collected from two localities, Ighalene and Timzilite and the DNA barcode showed a 99 % match with A. psi . Habitus and female genitalia are illustrated in Fig. 6.

Kingdom

Animalia

Phylum

Arthropoda

Class

Insecta

Order

Lepidoptera

Family

Noctuidae

Genus

Acronicta

Specimens