Amerila nigroapicalis
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. nigroapicalis
Binomial name
Amerila nigroapicalis
(Aurivillius, 1900)
Synonyms
  • Pelochyta nigroapicalis Aurivillius, 1899 [1900]
  • Rhodogastria nigroapicalis

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]

References

  1. 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.


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