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Alpenus maculosus

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Species of moth

Alpenus maculosus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Alpenus
Species: A. maculosus
Binomial name
Alpenus maculosus
(Stoll in Cramer, 1781)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Bombyx maculosa Stoll in Cramer, 1781
  • Alpenus maculosa
  • Ecpantheria assimilis Hübner,
  • Alpenus aequalis Walker, 1855
  • Ecpantheria indeterminata Walker, 1855
  • Halesidota macularia Walker,
  • Alpenus macularia (Walker, )
  • Spilosoma eyralpenus Plötz, 1880
  • Alpenus eyralpenus (Plötz, 1880)
  • Alpenus maculosus var. kordofanus Wichgraf, 1922

Alpenus maculosus is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found along the Gold Coast and in Lagos, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, eastern Africa and Zimbabwe.

The larvae feed on Commelina, Aster, Bidens pilosa, Senecio abyssinicus, Ipomoea, Zea mays, Arachis hypogaea, Phaseolus, Pseudarthria, Voandzeia subterranea, Gossypium and Theobroma cacao.

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Alpenus maculosa (Stoll, [1781])". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved September 26, 2019.
Taxon identifiers
Alpenus maculosus


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