Acantharctia vittata

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Acantharctia vittata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Acantharctia
Species:
A. vittata
Binomial name
Acantharctia vittata

Acantharctia vittata is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1899 and is found in Botswana and South Africa. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Acantharctia vittata Aurivillius, 1900". Afromoths. Retrieved November 13, 2017.