Amerila makadara

Amerila makadara
From Zimbabwe highlands
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Amerila
Species:
A. makadara
Binomial name
Amerila makadara
Häuser & Boppré, 1997

Amerila makadara is a species of moth in the subfamily Arctiinae. It was first described in 1997 by Christoph L. Häuser and Michael Boppré. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Eswatini and Zimbabwe.[1]

References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Amerila makadara Häuser & Boppré, 1997". Afromoths. Retrieved October 1, 2019.
  • 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. Ustjuzhanin in 2008–2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1–2): 285–301.
  • 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.