Micralarctia punctulatum

Micralarctia punctulatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Micralarctia
Species: M. punctulatum
Binomial name
Micralarctia punctulatum
(Wallengren, 1860)
Synonyms
  • Spilosoma punctulatum Wallengren, 1860
  • Micralarctia punctulata
  • Diacrisia albescens Rothschild, 1910
  • Spilosoma edlingeri Bartel, 1903
  • Estigmene schraderi Rothschild, 1910
  • Spilosoma auricinctum Butler, 1897
  • Pais nyassana f. haplocraspis Hulstaert, 1923
  • Amsacta evadne Fawcett, 1915
  • Spilosoma nivaria Bartel, 1903
  • Spilosoma nyassana Bartel, 1903
  • Alpenus purus Butler, 1878
  • Spilosoma euproctina Aurivillius, 1900

Micralarctia punctulatum is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1860. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ipomoea batates.[2]

Subspecies

  • Micralarctia punctulatum punctulatum (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe)
  • Micralarctia punctulatum auricinctum (Butler, 1897) (Angola, Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)
  • Micralarctia punctulatum euproctina (Aurivillius, 1899 [1900]) (Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania)
  • Micralarctia punctulatum pura (Butler, 1878) (Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)

References

  1. ↑ "AfroMoths". www.afromoths.net. Retrieved 2017-07-24.
  2. ↑ "Micralarctia". www.nic.funet.fi. Retrieved 2017-07-24.


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