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Metarctia lateritia

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Metarctia lateritia
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Metarctia
Species:
M. lateritia
Binomial name
Metarctia lateritia
Synonyms
  • Automolis lateritia Herrich-Schäffer, 1855
  • Hebena venosa Walker, 1856

Metarctia lateritia is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1855. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Eswatini, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Rwanda, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]

References

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  1. ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Metarctia lateritia (Herrich-Schäffer, 1855)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 2, 2018.