Simplicia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Herminiinae |
Genus: |
Simplicia Guenée, 1854 |
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Simplicia is a genus of litter moths of the Erebidae family.
Palpi sickle-shaped, where the second joint reaching above vertex of head. Third joint long and naked. Antennae minutely ciliated in male. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled. Fore tibia of male covered by a sheath containing masses of flocculent scales. Fore wings with somewhat acute apex. Areole very narrow with vein 10 given off far beyond it in male and from it in female. The discocellulars almost obsolete. Hind wings with vein 5 from near lower angle of cell.