Amerila thermochroa is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1916. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania and Uganda.[1]
Amerila thermochroa | |
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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. thermochroa
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Binomial name | |
Amerila thermochroa (Hampson, 1916)
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References
edit- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Amerila thermochroa (Hampson, 1916)". Afromoths. Retrieved October 19, 2018.
- Hampson, G.F., 1916: Descriptions of new species of the family Arctiadae in the British Museum. Novitates Zoologicae 23 (2): 230-240.
- 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.