Alytarchia leonina

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Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Tribe: Arctiini
Subtribe: Nyctemerina
Genus: Alytarchia
Species: A. leonina
Binomial name
Alytarchia leonina
(Walker, [1865])
Synonyms
  • Deiopeia leonina Walker, [1865]

Argina leonina

  • Bombyx crotalariae Hübner, 1793

Alytarchia leonina is a moth of the Erebidae family. It was described by Walker in 1865. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gambia, Malawi, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Uganda[1] as well as in India and Sri Lanka.[2]

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