Acantholipes
# Acantholipes

Acantholipes is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae erected by Julius Lederer in 1857.

## Description

Palpi obliquely upturned, where the second joint very broadly fringed with hair and a minute third joint. Thorax and abdomen smoothly scaled and slender. Tibia spineless and no long hairs. Forewings with quadrate or slightly acute apex.

## Species

* Acantholipes acephala Strand, 1912
* Acantholipes afar Laporte, 1991
* Acantholipes aurea Berio, 1966
* Acantholipes canofusca Hacker & Saldaitis, 2010
* Acantholipes circumdata (Walker, 1858) (or Acantholipes circumdatus)
* Acantholipes curvilinea Leech, 1900
* Acantholipes germainae Laporte, 1991
* Acantholipes hypenoides Moore, 1881
* Acantholipes juba Swinhoe, 1902
* Acantholipes larentioides Strand, 1920
* Acantholipes namacensis (Guenée, 1852)
* Acantholipes plecopteroides Strand, 1920
* Acantholipes plumbeonitens Hampson, 1926
* Acantholipes regularis (Hübner, [1813])
* Acantholipes regulatrix Wiltshire, 1961
* Acantholipes semiaurea Berio, 1966
* Acantholipes similis Moore, 1879
* Acantholipes singularis Gerasimov, 1931
* Acantholipes tenuipoda Strand, 1920
* Acantholipes trajecta Walker, 1865
* Acantholipes transiens Berio, 1955
* Acantholipes trimeni Felder & Rogenhofer, 1874
* Acantholipes zuboides (Montague, 1914)

## Former species

* Acantholipes mesoscota Hampson, 1904
