Afronyctemera itokina

Afronyctemera itokina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Superfamily:Noctuoidea
Family:Erebidae
Genus:Afronyctemera
Species: A. itokina
Binomial name
Afronyctemera itokina
(Aurivillius, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Deilemera itokina Aurivillius, 1904
  • Nyctemera itokina
  • Deilemera marcida Swinhoe, 1906
  • Deilemera camerunica Strand, 1909
  • Deilemera plana Wichgraf, 1921

Afronyctemera itokina is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Angola, Burundi, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Nigeria, Rwanda, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.[1]

The larvae feed on Senecio species.[2]

References

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


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