Amerila syntomina

Amerila syntomina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Amerila
Species:	A. syntomina
Binomial name
	Amerila syntomina; (Butler, 1878)
Synonyms
	Caryatis syntominaButler, 1878; Anace herpaDruce, 1887;

Last updated December 17, 2025

Amerila syntomina is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1878. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Sierra Leone and Tanzania.^[1]

Subspecies

Amerila syntomina syntomina
Amerila syntomina rubondoiHäuser & Boppre, 1997 (Tanzania)

References

↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Amerila syntomina (Butler, 1878)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.

Butler, A.G., 1878: Descriptions of some new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Old Calabar and Madagascar. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 2: 455-465.
Druce, H., 1887: Description of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera, mostly from Tropical Africa. Proceedings of the Scientific Meetings of the Zoological Society of London1887: 668-686, pl. LV.
Häuser, Ch. L. & Boppre, M., 1997: A revision of the Afrotropical taxa of the genus Amerila Walker (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Systematic Entomology22 (1): 1-44.

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[1] De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Amerila syntomina (Butler, 1878)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.

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