Eyralpenus meinhofi

Eyralpenus meinhofi
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Eyralpenus
Species:	E. meinhofi
Binomial name
Eyralpenus meinhofi (Bartel, 1903)
Synonyms
Spilosoma meinhofi Bartel, M, 1903 Eyralpenus (Pareyralpenus) meinhofi Amsacta atricrures Hampson, 1916 Estigmene melanocera Hampson, 1916 Estigmene metaxantha Hampson, 1920

Eyralpenus (Pareyralpenus) meinhofi is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Erebidae from the East and Central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia [Goodger, Watson, 1995, as meinhofi], Zambia, Angola, Zaire [Goodger, Watson, 1995, as metaxantha]; Malawi [Goodger, Watson, 1995 and Dubatolov, 2009, as melanocera]; Zaire [Kiriakoff, 1965, as melanocera]; Zimbabwe [Dubatolov, 2011].

References

• Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V.Kovtunovich & P. Usthjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae: Arctiinae). Atalanta 40 (1/2): 285-301, 352-355 (colour plates 24-27).
• Dubatolov, V.V., 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.
• Goodger, D.T. & Watson, A., 1995: The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the Afrotropical Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). – Stenstrup, Denmark: Apollo Books Aps., 55 pp.
• Kiriakoff, S.G., 1965: Les Lépidoptères h”etérocères africaines de la collection Abel Dufrane. Bulletin Institute royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique 41 (21): 1-17.