Afromurzinia lutescens
| Afromurzinia lutescens | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Tribe: | Arctiini |
| Subtribe: | Spilosomina |
| Genus: | Afromurzinia |
| Species: | A. lutescens |
| Binomial name | |
| Afromurzinia lutescens (Walker, 1855) | |
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Afromurzinia lutescens is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Walker in 1855. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda and Zimbabwe.[1]
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ornithogalum eckloni, Zea mays, Dalbergia sissoo, Eucalyptus camaldulensis, Eucalyptus deglupta, Eucalyptus torreliana, Eucalyptus rudis, Gmelina arborea and Cassia siamea.
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