Amerila_puella

<i>Amerila puella</i>

Amerila puella

Species of moth

Amerila puella is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Senegal, Sierra Leone, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Nigeria, Zaire, Uganda, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania and Malawi.[1]

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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

  1. [1]
    Tiger Moths (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) of the Afrotropics Archived 2012-03-25 at the Wayback Machine


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