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Achaea mercatoria
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Achaea
Species:
A. mercatoria
Binomial name
Achaea mercatoria
(Fabricius, 1775)
Synonyms
  • Noctua mercatoria Fabricius, 1775
  • Achaea accelerans Walker, 1858
  • Achaea ino Hübner, 1823
  • Noctua vulpina Fabricius, 1794

Achaea mercatoria is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in countries in tropical Africa and Asia, from South Africa to South East Asia, including the Near East (Saudi Arabia and Yemen) and the islands of Madagascar, Seychelles and Cabo Verde.[1]

It has been identified in north-western Australia only in 1978 from specimen collected back to 1968, which had previously been confused with Achaea serva.

This species has a wingspan of 56-66mm. One of the foodplants of the larvae is Ricinus communis.[2]

References

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  1. ^ afromoths.net
  2. ^ Edwards, 1978, A Review of the Genus ACHAEA Hübner in Australia – Australian Journal of Entomology, Volume 17(4): 329–340
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