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Araeopteron

Han, Hui Lin;Kononenko, Vladimir S.

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Araeopteron

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Araeopteron is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1893.

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  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyNoctuidae
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Araeopteron is a genus of moths of the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by George Hampson in 1893.

==Taxonomy== The genus has previously been classified in the subfamily Araeopteroninae within Erebidae or in the subfamily Acontiinae of the family Noctuidae. A recent overview of the diversity is given by Han & Kononenko (2021).

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