On the taxonomy of the genus Acronicta (Lepidoptera, Noctuidae). II. A replacement name for Acronicta geminata (Draudt, 1950).

Acronicta geminata (Draudt, 1950) has been described from China, Batang and treated by authors (Poole 1989; Gyulai, Ronkay, 2009; Han & Kononenko 2011) as a valid species. The New World arconictine genus Agriopodes Hampson comprised seven species including A. geminata (Smith, 1903). Schmidt et al. (2014) synonymised Agriopodes with Acronicta Ochsenheimer and A. geminata with A. fallax (Herrich-Schäffer). So, despite synonymy of fallax and geminata, at present there are two taxa with name geminata within the genus Acronicta, and A. geminata (Draudt, 1950) should be treated as a minor secondary homonym of A. geminata (Smith, 1903). A. geminata (Draudt, 1950) has no synonyms and according article 60 of ICZN (1999), the name geminata should be replaced on another one for this species.