Afrospilarctia lucida

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Afrospilarctia lucida
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Afrospilarctia
Species:
A. lucida
Binomial name
Afrospilarctia lucida
(H. Druce, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Euchaetes lucidaH. Druce, 1898
  • Spilosoma steudeliBartel, 1903

Afrospilarctia lucida is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Herbert Druce in 1898. It is found in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zimbabwe. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Afrospilarctia lucida (Druce, 1898)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 21, 2019.