Yepcalphis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Nye in 1975. Its only species, Yepcalphis dilectissima, was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in Sri Lanka, the Oriental tropics, the Philippines, Sulawesi and the Sula Islands.
Yepcalphis is a monotypic moth genus of the family Noctuidae erected by Nye in 1975. Its only species, Yepcalphis dilectissima, was first described by Francis Walker in 1858. It is found in Sri Lanka, the Oriental tropics, the Philippines, Sulawesi and the Sula Islands.
==Description== The genus is described as: palpi upturned, short, smoothly scaled, and not reaching vertex of head. Antennae simple, somewhat thickened in the male. Thorax and abdomen tuftless. Forewings with non-crenulate cilia and stalked veins 7,8,9 and 10. Hindwings with veins 3,4 and 6,7 from angles of cell.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).