Eyralpenus

Eyralpenus
Eyralpenus sublutea
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Subtribe:	Spilosomina
Genus:	Eyralpenus Butler, 1875
Type species
Spilosoma testacea Walker, 1855

Eyralpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The genus was erected by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1875. The moths in the genus are found in the Afrotropics.

Species

• Eyralpenus inconspicua (Rothschild, 1910)
• Eyralpenus kovtunovitchi Dubatolov, 2011
• Eyralpenus postflavida (Rothschild, 1933)
• Eyralpenus scioana (Oberthür, 1879 [1880])
  • Eyralpenus scioana intensa (Rothschild, 1910)
  • Eyralpenus scioana paucipunctata (Kiriakoff, 1963)
• Eyralpenus sublutea (Bartel, 1903)
• Eyralpenus testacea (Walker, 1855)
• Eyralpenus trifasciata (Holland, 1892)

Subgenus Pareyralpenus Dubatolov & Haynes, 2008

• Eyralpenus diplosticta (Hampson, 1900)
• Eyralpenus meinhofi (Bartel, 1903)
• Eyralpenus quadrilunata (Hampson, 1901)

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.
• Dubatolov, V.V., & Haynes, P.G., 2008: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera. 1. New genera from the late Prof. V. S. Murzin's collection (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 39 (1/4): 356–366, 20 figs., pl. 15.
• Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.