Amerila vidua is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found in Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Mauritius, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.[1]
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Amerila |
Species: | A. vidua
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Binomial name | |
Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)
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Subspecies
edit- Amerila vidua vidua
- Amerila vidua mauritia (Stoll, [1781]) (Mauritius)
References
edit- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Amerila vidua (Cramer, 1780)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 19, 2017.
- Cramer, P., 1780: De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa en America [Papillons Exotiques des trois parties du monde l'Asie, l'Afrique & l'Amerique] 3: 1-176, t. CXCII-CCLXXXVII, Amsterdam, Utrecht.
- 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.