Amerila nigroapicalis is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1900 and is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea and Nigeria.[1]
Amerila nigroapicalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Amerila |
Species: | A. nigroapicalis
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Binomial name | |
Amerila nigroapicalis (Aurivillius, 1900)
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References
edit- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Amerila nigroapicalis (Aurivillius, 1900)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- Aurivillius, C., 1899 [1900]: Diagnosen neuer Lepidopteren aus Afrika von Christopher Aurivillius. 5. Entomologisk Tidskrift 20: 233-258.
- 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.