Amata gigas

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Amata gigas
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Amata
Species:
A. gigas
Binomial name
Amata gigas
(Rothschild, 1910)
Synonyms
  • Callitomis gigasRothschild, 1910

Amata gigas is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found on Sulawesi. [1]

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References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Amata gigas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 25, 2018.