Amerila luteibarba is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Angola, Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Togo, and Uganda.[1]

Amerila luteibarba
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Amerila
Species:
A. luteibarba
Binomial name
Amerila luteibarba
(Hampson, 1901)
Synonyms
  • Rhodogastria luteibarba Hampson, 1901

References

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  1. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)". Afromoths. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
  • Hampson, G., 1901: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) 3: XII+609 p., pl. 36-54, London.
  • Häuser, Ch. L. & Boppre, M., 1997: A revision of the Afrotropical taxa of the genus Amerila Walker (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Systematic Entomology 22 (1): 1-44.