Alytarchia leonina

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Alytarchia leonina
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Alytarchia
Species:
A. leonina
Binomial name
Alytarchia leonina
(Walker, [1865])
Synonyms
  • Deiopeia leoninaWalker, [1865]
  • Argina leonina
  • Bombyx crotalariaeHübner, 1793

Alytarchia leonina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1865. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the Gambia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda [1] as well as in India and Sri Lanka. [2]

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References

  1. "African Moths". Archived from the original on 2011-09-09. Retrieved 2013-07-08.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Alytarchia leonina (Walker, 1865)". Afromoths. Retrieved February 2, 2018.CS1 maint: discouraged parameter (link)