Acronicta (Jocheaera), Hubner

Han, H. L. & Kononenko, V. S., 2010, New species of the genera Acronicta Ochsenheimer, 1816 and Craniophora Snellen, 1867 from China with notes on synonymy and checklist (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae: Acronictinae), Zootaxa 2678 (1), pp. 48-68 : 49

Subgenus Jocheaera Hübner

Jocheaera Hübner, [1820] 1816 , Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge: 201. Type-species: Phalaena alni Linnaeus, 1767 [Europe].

Medium sized moths, wing colour brown-grey with characteristic dark brown suffusion in medial shade and along inner margin of wing. In male genitalia, uncus moderate, juxta plate-like, V-shaped; sacculus moderate; harpe curved, large, exceeding costal margin of valva; the ventral margin of valva beyond harpe with wide, long sclerotised edge, quadrangular at apex, with short pointed extension on the tip. Aedeagus moderate; vesica tubular, relatively large, with field of moderate, thin cornuti. The subgenus includes the Palaearctic Acronicta (Jocheaera) alni (Lnnaeus, 1758) , its Nearctic counterpart Acronicta (Jocheaera) funeralis (Grote & Robinson, 1866) and a new species, described below.