Amerila syntomina

Amerila syntomina is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.[1]

Amerila syntomina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Erebidae
Subfamily:
Arctiinae
Genus:
Amerila
Species:
A. syntomina
Binomial name
Amerila syntomina
(Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
  • Caryatis syntomina Butler, 1878
  • Anace herpa Druce, 1887

Subspecies
  • Amerila syntomina syntomina
  • Amerila syntomina rubondoi Häuser & Boppre, 1997 (Tanzania)
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References
  1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Amerila syntomina (Butler, 1878)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
  • Butler, A.G., 1878: Descriptions of some new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Old Calabar and Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 2: 455-465.
  • Druce, H., 1887: Description of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera, mostly from Tropical Africa. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London 1887: 668-686, pl. LV.
  • 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.


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