Aedia nigrescens is a moth of the family Noctuidae first described by Wallengren in 1856 in the genus Anophia. It was originally found in the Southern Africa, later Central and West Africa.
The name Aedia nigrescens (Wallengren, 1856) is a recombination, it is a homonym of Aedia nigrescens Grote & Robinson, 1866 which became a subjective synonym of Melipotis indomita (Walker, 1858)