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Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.

Species

crotalaria pod borer

GENUS

  1. KingdomAnimalia
  2. PhylumArthropoda
  3. ClassInsecta
  4. OrderLepidoptera
  5. FamilyErebidae
Observations1,510

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Museum specimens

Specimen records
3
Family
Erebidae
Collections
NHMUK
Recorded in
Zimbabwe

Wikidata facts

Instance of
taxon
Parent taxon
Spilosomina
Image
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taxon name
Alpenus
taxon rank
genus
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Encyclopedic overview

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Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.

==Species== Alpenus affiniola (Strand, 1919) Alpenus auriculatus Watson, 1989 Alpenus diversatus (Hampson, 1916) Alpenus dollmani (Hampson, 1920) Alpenus geminipuncta (Hampson, 1916) Alpenus intactus (Hampson, 1916) Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898) Alpenus maculosus (Stoll in Cramer, 1781) Alpenus microstictus (Hampson, 1920) Alpenus nigropunctatus (Bethune-Baker, 1908) Alpenus pardalina (Rothschild, 1910) Alpenus schraderi (Rothschild, 1910) Alpenus schraderi rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910) Alpenus thomasi Watson, 1989 Alpenus whalleyi Watson, 1989 Alpenus wichgrafi Watson, 1989

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