Afromurzinia
Appearance
Afromurzinia | |
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Translucent Ermine (Spilosoma lutescens) | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
Genus: | Afromurzinia Dubatolov & Haynes, 2008 |
Type species | |
Spilosoma lutescens Walker, 1855
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Afromurzinia is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae and found in the Afrotropics. The genus was erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov and Patrick G. Haynes in 2008.
Species
[edit]- Afromurzinia fletcheri (Kiriakoff, 1958)
- Afromurzinia lutescens (Walker, 1855)
- Afromurzinia sublutescens (Kiriakoff, 1958)
References
[edit]- Dubatolov, Vladimir V. & Haynes, Patrick G. (2008). "Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera 1. New genera from the late Prof. V.S. Murzin's collection (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae)". Atalanta. 39 (1-4): 356-366.