Amata alicia
| Amata alicia | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Amata |
| Species: | A. alicia |
| Binomial name | |
| Amata alicia (Butler, 1876) | |
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Amata alicia is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It occurs throughout Africa, from Morocco to South Africa.
The adults look similar to Amata cerbera.
Larvae feed on coffee plants,[1] Bidens pilosa, Cupressus, Dahlia and Manihot glaziovii.[2]
The amata alicia is commonly found in Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Ethiopia, Gabon, Kenya, Mozambique, Morocco, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[3]
Subspecies
- Amata alicia alicia
- Amata alicia damarensis (Grünberg, 1910)
Note: Caution with "Amata alicia hoggariensis" [sic] (Alberti & Alberti, 1978) in some online schemes, can be unjustified recombination and subsequent spelling of Amata mogadorensis hoggarensis (Alberti & Alberti, 1978)
References
- ↑ "Flora of Zimbabwe: Lepidoptera - Butterflies and Moths: Amata alicia". www.zimbabweflora.co.zw. Retrieved 12 July 2017.
- ↑ "www.africanmoths.com". Archived from the original on 9 September 2011. Retrieved 12 July 2012.
- ↑ Maid, Alice. "Amata alicia African Moths". African Moths. Archived from the original on 17 November 2015.