Alpenus maculosa

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea

Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Arctiini
Subtribus: Spilosomina
Genus: Alpenus
Species: Alpenus maculosa

Name

Alpenus maculosa (Stoll in Cramer, 1781)

Synonyms

• Phalaena Bombyx maculosa Stoll in Cramer, 1781
• Ecpantheria assimilis Hübner, [1820]
• Alpenus aequalis Walker, 1855
  • Type locality: West Africa
    • Holotype: BMNH. female ♀
• Ecpantheria indeterminata Walker, 1855
  • Type locality: West or central Africa.

Lectotype: BMNH. female ♀. (lectotype designated by Watson, 1989: 263)

• Halesidota macularia Walker, [1865]
  • Type locality: West or central Africa
    • Lectotype: BMNH. female ♀. (lectotype designated by Watson, 1989: 263)
• Alpenus macularia (Walker, [1865])
• Spilosoma eyralpenus Plötz, 1880
• Alpenus eyralpenus (Plötz, 1880)

References

• Hübner, J., 1816-[1826]: Verzeichnis bekannter Schmetterlinge: 431 pp., Augsburg.
• Plötz, C., 1880: Verzeichniss der vom Professor Dr. R. Buchholz in West-Africa gesammelten Schmetterlinge. Entomologische Zeitung herausgegeben von dem entomologische Vereine zu Stettin 41: 76–88.
• Stoll, C., 1780-1782: De Uitlandsche Kapellen voorkomende in de drie Waereld-Deelen Asia, Africa en America [Papillons Exotiques des trois parties du monde l’Asie, l’Afrique et l’Amerique] 4: 1–252 pp., t. CCCV-CCCC, Amsterdam, Utrecht.
• Walker, F., 1855: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 3: 583–775, Edward Newman: London.
• Walker, F., 1864 [1865]: List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 31, suppl.: 321 p., Edward Newman: London.
• Watson, A., 1989: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 19: 251–291.