Amerila
| Amerila | |
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| Amerila crokeri | |
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Subkingdom: | Eumetazoa |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Subphylum: | Hexapoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Division: | Ditrysia |
| Family: | Arctiidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Amerila Walker, 1855 |
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Amerila is a genus of moth in the family Arctiidae. A number of species in this genus have a special defence mechanism when they are in their adult stage. When disturbed, they exude a frothy yellow fluid from glands beside the eyes, while making a sizzling noise to ward off their attacker. Similar behaviour has been observed in fertilised females of the North-American moth Utetheisa ornatrix.
Species
- Amerila abdominalis (Rothschild, 1933)
- Amerila accra (Strand, 1919)
- Amerila affinis (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila alberti (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila albivitrea (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila aldabrensis (Fryer, 1912)
- Amerila androfusca (Pinhey, 1952)
- Amerila arthusbertrand (Guérin-Méneville, 1830)
- Amerila astreus (Drury, 1773)
- Amerila bauri (Möschler, 1884)
- Amerila bipartita (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila brunnea (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila bubo (Walker, 1855)
- Amerila castanea (Hampson, 1911)
- Amerila catinca Häuser et Boppre, 1997
- Amerila cynira (Muller, 1980), nomen nudum
- Amerila crokeri (MacLeay, 1826)
- Amerila curta (Rothschild, 1917)
- Amerila erythropus (Rothschild, 1917)
- Amerila eugenia (Fabricius, 1794)
- Amerila femina (Berio, 1935)
- Amerila fennia (Druce, 1887)
- Amerila fumida (Swinhoe, 1901)
- Amerila fuscivena (Hampson, 1916)
- Amerila howardi (Pinhey, 1955)
- Amerila kiellandi Häuser et Boppre, 1997
- Amerila kuehni (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila lactea (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila leucoptera (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila lineolata (Kiriakoff, 1954)
- Amerila lucida (Muller, 1980), nomen nudum
- Amerila lupia (Druce, 1887)
- Amerila luteibarba (Hampson, 1901)
- Amerila madagascariensis (Boisduval, 1847)
- Amerila magnifica (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila makadara Häuser et Boppre, 1997
- Amerila mulleri Häuser et Boppre, 1997
- Amerila myrrha (Muller, 1980), nomen nudum
- Amerila nigrivenosa (Grünberg, 1910)
- Amerila nigroapicalis (Aurivillius, 1900)
- Amerila nigropunctata (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Amerila niveivitrea (Bartel, 1903)
- Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila phaedra Weymer, 1892
- Amerila piepersii Snellen, 1879
- Amerila puella (Fabricius, [1794])
- Amerila rhodopa Walker, 1865
- Amerila roseomarginata (Rothschild, 1910)
- Amerila rubripes Walker, 1865
- Amerila rufifemur (Walker, 1855)
- Amerila rufitarsis (Rothschild, 1917)
- Amerila serica Meyrick, 1886
- Amerila shimbaensis Häuser et Boppre, 1997
- Amerila simillima (Rothschild, 1917)
- Amerila syntomina (Butler, 1878)
- Amerila thermochroa (Hampson, 1916)
- Amerila timolis (Rothschild, 1914)
- Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)
- Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880
Incorretly placed species
- Amerila atrivena Hampson, 1907 (in Dubatolovia, Spilosomini)
- Amerila hersilia Druce, 1887 (in Caryatis, Nyctemerini)
- Amerila phileta (Drury, 1782) (in Caryatis, Nyctemerini)
- Amerila stenoperas Hampson, 1910 (in Caryatis, Nyctemerini)
Note
Caryatis species are not morphologically related to Amerila.
References
- Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285-301.
- Dubatolov, V.V., 2010: Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1-106, Marktleuthen.
- Goodger, D.T. & Watson, A., 1995: The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the Afrotropical Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae): 1-55, Apollo Books Aps.: Stenstrup, Denmark.
- Edwards, E.D., 1996: Arctiidae: 278-286, 368-370. In: Nielsen, E., Edwards, E., Rangsi T., Edwards E.D., Nielsen E.S. & Rangsi, T.V. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 4: xiv+529, CSIRO: Melbourne.
- 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.
- Kôda, N., 1989: A Generic Classification of the Subfamily Arctiinae of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions based on the Male and Female Genitalia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) Part I. Tyô to Ga 38 (3): 153-237. Abstract and full article: .