Alpenus maculosus | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Alpenus |
Species: | A. maculosus |
Binomial name | |
Alpenus maculosus (Stoll in Cramer, 1781) | |
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Alpenus maculosus is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found along the Gold Coast and in Lagos, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, eastern Africa and Zimbabwe. [1]
The larvae feed on Commelina , Aster , Bidens pilosa , Senecio abyssinicus , Ipomoea , Zea mays , Arachis hypogaea , Phaseolus , Pseudarthria , Voandzeia subterranea , Gossypium and Theobroma cacao .
Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.
Tellervini is a tribe of danaid butterflies with only the one genus Tellervo, with six widely distributed species found in the Australasian realm and the Indomalayan realm. The taxon is apparently monophyletic, but its relationship with the other two danaid tribes is yet uncertain. The phylogeography of the group is also a challenge to those who hold to a Cenozoic origin of the butterflies.
Phostria is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae.
Eumelea rosalia is a species of moth of the family Geometridae described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, east to northern Australia and New Caledonia.
Acosmeryx anceus is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781, and it is known from India, New Guinea, and Queensland, Australia.
Hypercompe cunigunda is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador and Bolivia.
Poliopastea eacus is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Suriname and Pará, Brazil.
Parathyris cedonulli is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in French Guiana, Suriname, Brazil, Venezuela, Ecuador, Bolivia, Honduras and Belize.
Lypotigris reginalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found in Suriname, Trinidad and Tobago, Central America, the West Indies and Florida.
Flaccilla is a monotypic skipper butterfly genus in the family Hesperiidae described by Frederick DuCane Godman in 1901. It has one species, Flaccilla aecas, the aecas ruby-eye, described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found from Mexico to southern Brazil.
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