Acontarache

Acontarache is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae. Its only species, Acontarache somaliensis, is found in Somalia. Both the genus and species were first described by Emilio Berio in 1977.

Acontarache
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Acontarache

Berio, 1977
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A. somaliensis
Binomial name
Acontarache somaliensis
Berio, 1977

Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms gives this name as a subgenus of Acontia Ochsenheimer, 1816 and the above species as a synonym of Acontia somaliensis (Berio, 1977).

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