Amerila lupia

Amerila lupia
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Arctiidae
Genus:	Amerila
Species:	A. lupia
Binomial name
	Amerila lupia; (Druce, 1887)
Synonyms
	Pelochyta lupia Druce, 1887; Rhodogastria lupia; Amerila nivaria Weymer, 1892; Rhodogastria sanguinota Strand, 1911;

Amerila lupia is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Druce in 1887. It is found in Kenya, Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[1]

References

Druce, H., 1887: Description of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera, mostly from Tropical Africa. Proceedings of the scientific meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1887: 668-686, pl. LV.
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.
Strand, E., 1911: Neue Gattungen und Arten afrikanischer Heterocera (Lep.). Deutsche Entomologische Zeitschrift 1911: 584-591.
Weymer, G., 1892: Exotische Lepidopteren VI. (Aus dem afrikanischen Faunengebiet.). Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologischen Vereine zu Stettin 53 (4-6): 79-125.

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