Antitype (moth)

Antitype
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Noctuidae
Genus: Antitype
Hübner, [1821]

Antitype is a genus of moths of the Noctuidae family.

The scientific name is derived from the Greek antitupos (something that returns). Hübner probably referred to similarities with a genus which was described earlier, probably Polymixis.[1]

Species

Antitype kalchbergi is now known as Brachygalea kalchbergi (Staudinger, 1897).

References

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