Songgon moth (Acropteris rectinervata)

Songgon moth (Acropteris rectinervata) is a species of animal in the Uraniidae, a small moth with a predominant color of white and a gray tinge, wings spread out in a quadrangle, slightly curved front, flat back, living in shady rainforests.

A. rectinervata has triangular forewings, white with a gray tinge to form horizontal stripes. The front margins are pulsed, curved and plots are gray. The side margins are flat and have a gray band.





The hind wings are white with a gray tinge to form horizontal stripes. The pulses run vertically. The side and back margins are flat and have a gray band. The head has two black plot marks.

TAXON

Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Hexapoda
Class: Insecta
Subclass: Pterygota
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Geometroidea
Family: Uraniidae
Subfamily: Microniinae
Genus: Acropteris Geyer (1832)
Species: Acropteris rectinervata Guenée in Hist. nat. Insectes, Spec. Gen. Lep., 10: 27 (1857)

VERNACULAR NAME

English: Songgon moth
Indonesia: Ngengat songgon

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