Asplenia melanodonta

Asplenia melanodonta is the only species in the monotypic moth genus Asplenia of the family Noctuidae. The species is found in Africa. Both the genus and the species were first described by George Hampson, the genus in 1916 and the species in 1896.^[2][3]

Asplenia melanodonta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Noctuidae
Subfamily:	Acontiinae
Tribe:	Armadini
Genus:	Asplenia Hampson, 1916
Species:	A. melanodonta
Binomial name
Asplenia melanodonta (Hampson, 1896)
Synonyms[1]
Species synonymy Asplenia buranensis Prout Asplenia erffai Grünberg, 1913 Asplenia erffai subsp. chloridina Hampson, 1926 Asplenia ethiopica Hampson, 1909 Asplenia melanodonta subsp. erffai (Grünberg, 1913)

The subspecies Asplenia melanodonta chloridina is sometimes recognized as a species of this genus.^[3][4]