Eyralpenus meinhofi
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Eyralpenus
Species:
E. meinhofi
Binomial name
Eyralpenus meinhofi
(Bartel, 1903)
Synonyms
  • Spilosoma meinhofi Bartel, 1903
  • Eyralpenus (Pareyralpenus) meinhofi
  • Amsacta atricrures Hampson, 1916
  • Estigmene melanocera Hampson, 1916
  • Estigmene metaxantha Hampson, 1920

Eyralpenus meinhofi is a polymorphic tiger-moth in the family Erebidae first described by Max Bartel in 1903. It is known from the east and central Africa: Tanzania, Zambia (Goodger, Watson, 1995, as meinhofi), Zambia, Angola, Zaire (Goodger, Watson, 1995, as metaxantha); Malawi (Goodger, Watson, 1995 and Dubatolov, 2009, as melanocera); Zaire (Kiriakoff, 1965, as melanocera); Zimbabwe (Dubatolov, 2011).

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