Alpenus

Alpenus
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
Synonyms
Eminaria Bethune-Backer, 1908

Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the Erebidae family. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.

Species

• 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

• Watson, A., 1988 [1989]: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 19: 251-291.
• Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog