Afrasura peripherica

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Afrasura peripherica
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Afrasura
Species:
A. peripherica
Binomial name
Afrasura peripherica
(Strand, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Asura periphericaStrand, 1912
  • Asura peripheria hilaraKiriakoff, 1958

Afrasura peripherica is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Embrik Strand in 1912. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Rwanda and Uganda. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Afrasura peripherica (Strand, 1912)". Afromoths. Retrieved October 12, 2019.