Amerila leucoptera

Amerila leucoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Amerila
Species:	A. leucoptera
Binomial name
*Amerila leucoptera* (Hampson, 1901)
Synonyms
Rhodogastria leucoptera Hampson, 1901 Rhodogastria pannosa Grünberg, 1908 Rhodogastria sarconota Hampson, 1911

Amerila leucoptera is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Hampson in 1901. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.^[1]

References

Grünberg, K., 1908: Neue Lepidopteren aus Uganda. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1908: 50-62.
Hampson, G., 1901: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) 3: XII+609 p., pl. 36-54, London.
Hampson, G.F., 1911: Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidæ, Arctiadæ, Agaristidæ, and Noctuidæ. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 8: 394-445.
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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