| Leucoma luteipes | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Leucoma |
| Species: | L. luteipes |
| Binomial name | |
| Leucoma luteipes (Walker, 1855) | |
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This species is found in Angola, Cameroon, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. [1] [2]
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