Alpenus
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Alpenus Walker, 1855 |
Type species | |
Alpenus aequalis Walker, 1855
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Synonyms | |
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Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.
Species
[edit]- Alpenus affiniola (Strand, 1919)
- Alpenus auriculatus Watson, 1989
- Alpenus diversatus (Hampson, 1916)
- Alpenus dollmani (Hampson, 1920)
- Alpenus geminipuncta (Hampson, 1916)
- Alpenus intactus (Hampson, 1916)
- Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)
- Alpenus maculosus (Stoll in Cramer, 1781)
- Alpenus microstictus (Hampson, 1920)
- Alpenus nigropunctatus (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
- Alpenus pardalina (Rothschild, 1910)
- Alpenus schraderi (Rothschild, 1910)
- Alpenus schraderi rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910)
- Alpenus thomasi Watson, 1989
- Alpenus whalleyi Watson, 1989
- Alpenus wichgrafi Watson, 1989
References
[edit]- Watson, A., 1988 [1989]: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 19: 251-291.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.