Metarctia alticola

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Metarctia alticola
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Metarctia
Species:
M. alticola
Binomial name
Metarctia alticola
Synonyms
  • Metarctia rhoditesKiriakoff, 1957

Metarctia alticola is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1925 and is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. [1]

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References

  1. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Metarctia alticola Aurivillius, 1925". Afromoths. Retrieved November 12, 2017.