Pseudarctia nivea
| Pseudarctia nivea | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Lymantriinae |
| Genus: | Pseudarctia Bethune-Baker, 1911 |
| Species: | P. nivea |
| Binomial name | |
| Pseudarctia nivea Bethune-Baker, 1911 | |
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Pseudarctia nivea is a species of tussock moth in the Erebidae family. The genus Pseudartcia includes only this species, which was previously classified in the Arctiinae (subfamily of tiger and lichen moths) but later reclassified as a tussock moth (Lymantriinae subfamily). The species was described by Aurivillius in 1899 and is found in Uganda.[1]