Amerila puella
Amerila puella | |
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Amerila puella rothi | |
Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Arctiidae |
Genus: | Amerila |
Species: | A. puella |
Binomial name | |
Amerila puella (Fabricius, 1793) | |
Synonyms | |
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Amerila puella is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It is found in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.[1]
Subspecies
- Amerila puella puella (Guinea, Principe Island)
- Amerila puella carneola (Hampson, 1916) (Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zaire and East Africa from Ethiopia to Uganda and Tanzania)
- Amerila puella invidua (Bethune-Baker, 1925) (West Africa from Senegal to Ivory Coast)
- Amerila puella rothi (Rothschild, 1910) (Ivory Coast, Nigeria, West Africa: southern Nigeria and Cameroon)
References
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