Alpenus maculosus

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Alpenus maculosus
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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)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Bombyx maculosaStoll in Cramer, 1781
  • Alpenus maculosa
  • Ecpantheria assimilisHübner, [1820]
  • Alpenus aequalisWalker, 1855
  • Ecpantheria indeterminataWalker, 1855
  • Halesidota maculariaWalker, [1865]
  • Alpenus macularia(Walker, [1865])
  • Spilosoma eyralpenusPlötz, 1880
  • Alpenus eyralpenus(Plötz, 1880)
  • Alpenus maculosus var. kordofanusWichgraf, 1922

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 .

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References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, [1781])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 26, 2019.