Micralarctia punctulatum | |
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Micralarctia |
Species: | M. punctulatum
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Binomial name | |
Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)
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Micralarctia punctulatum is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1860. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ipomoea batates.[2]