Trigonodes hyppasia

Triangles
Scientific classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Noctuidae (?)
Genus: Trigonodes
Species:
T. hyppasia
Binomial name
Trigonodes hyppasia
(Cramer, 1779)
Synonyms
  • Noctua hyppasia Cramer, 1779
  • Chalciope hyppasia
  • Phalaena deliana Stoll, 1790
  • Chaciope deliana (Stoll, 1790)
  • Ophiusa anfractuosa Boisduval, 1833
  • Trigonodes acutata Guenée, 1852
  • Trigonodes exportata Guenée, 1852
  • Trigonodes inacuta Guenée, 1852
  • Trigonodes compar Walker, 1858

Trigonodes hyppasia, the triangles or semi-looper, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is largely cosmopolitan, found throughout Borneo, Fiji, India, Maldives, Nepal, Sri Lanka, São Tomé and Príncipe, Taiwan, Thailand, Zimbabwe, northern Australia, and almost all African countries.