Amerila vitrea

Amerila vitrea
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Genus: Amerila
Species: A. vitrea
Binomial name
Amerila vitrea
Plötz, 1880
Synonyms
  • Rhodogastria vitrea
  • Pelochyta vidua Saalmüller, 1884 (nec Cramer, 1779)
  • Rhodogastria saalmuelleri Rothschild, 1911

Amerila vitrea is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Plötz in 1880. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Fasso, Cameroon, the Republic of Congo, The Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]

Subspecies

References

  1. "AfroMoths". www.afromoths.net. Retrieved 2017-07-24.


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