Amerila

Taxonavigation

Taxonavigation: Noctuoidea
Superregnum: Eukaryota Cladus: Unikonta Cladus: Opisthokonta Cladus: Holozoa Regnum: Animalia Subregnum: Eumetazoa Cladus: Bilateria Cladus: Nephrozoa Cladus: Protostomia Cladus: Ecdysozoa Cladus: Panarthropoda Phylum: Arthropoda Cladus: Pancrustacea Cladus: Allotriocarida Subphylum: Hexapoda Classis: Insecta Cladus: Dicondylia Subclassis: Pterygota Infraclassis: Neoptera Cladus: Eumetabola Cladus: Holometabola Superordo: Panorpida Cladus: Amphiesmenoptera Ordo: Lepidoptera Subordo: Glossata Cladus: Coelolepida Cladus: Myoglossata Cladus: Neolepidoptera Infraordo: Heteroneura Cladus: Eulepidoptera Cladus: Ditrysia Cladus: Apoditrysia Cladus: Obtectomera Cladus: Macroheterocera Superfamilia: Noctuoidea

Familia: Erebidae
Subfamilia: Arctiinae
Tribus: Amerilini
Genus: Amerila
Species: A. abdominalis – A. accra – A. affinis – A. alberti – A. albivitrea – A. aldabrensis – A. alexandrae – A. androfusca – A. arthusbertrand – A. astreus – A. bauri – A. bipartita – A. brunnea – A. bubo – A. castanea – A. catinca – A. cinyra – A. crokeri – A. curta – A. erythropus – A. eugenia – A. femina – A. fennia – A. francesae – A. fumida – A. fuscivena – A. howardi – A. kiellandi – A. kuehni – A. lactea – A. leucoptera – A. lineolata – A. lucida – A. lupia – A. luteibarba – A. madagascariensis – A. magnifica – A. makadara – A. mulleri – A. myrrha – A. nigrivenosa – A. nigroapicalis – A. nigropunctata – A. niveivitrea – A. omissa – A. phaedra – A. piepersii – A. puella – A. rhodopa – A. rosenfeldae – A. roseomarginata – A. rubondoi – A. rubripes – A. rufifemur – A. rufitarsis – A. serica – A. shimbaensis – A. simillima – A. syntomina – A. thermochroa – A. timolis – A. vidua – A. vitrea

Uncertain names not cited in main catalogues:

A. canara – A. lurida – A. melanthus – A. saucia – A. sericea

Name

Amerila Walker, 1855

Type species: Sphinx astreus Drury, 1773

Synonyms

Canopus Walker, 1855. Type species: Canopus bubo Walker, 1855.
Phryganeomorpha Wallengren, 1858. Type species: Chelonia madagascariensis Boisduval, 1847.
Amblythyris Mabille, 1879. Type species: Amblythyris radama Mabille, 1879.
Gastrochrysia Kiriakoff, 1954. Type species: Gastrochrysia lineolata Kiriakoff, 1954.
Euthoracia Hulstaert, 1923. Type species: Caryatis syntomina Butler, 1878.
Rhodogastria auct., nec Hübner, [1819]

References

Walker, F. 1855. List of the specimens of lepidopterous insects in the collection of the British Museum. Part V. Lepidoptera Heterocera. British Museum (Natural History), London. 977–1257. BHL Reference page.
Dubatolov, V.V., 2009: Reviewing the African tiger-moth genera: 1. A new genus, two new subgenera and a species list from the expedition to Malawi by V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2008-2009, with further taxonomic notes on South African Arctiinae. Atalanta 40 (1-2): 285–301. Full article: [1].
Dubatolov, V.V., 2010: Tiger-moths of Eurasia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) (Nyctemerini by Rob de Vos & Vladimir V. Dubatolov). Neue Entomologische Nachrichten 65: 1–106, Marktleuthen.
Goodger, D.T. & Watson, A., 1995: The Afrotropical Tiger-Moths. An illustrated catalogue, with generic diagnosis and species distribution, of the Afrotropical Arctiinae (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae): 1–55, Apollo Books Aps.: Stenstrup, Denmark.
Edwards, E.D., 1996: Arctiidae: 278–286, 368-370. In: Nielsen, E., Edwards, E., Rangsi T., Edwards E.D., Nielsen E.S. & Rangsi, T.V. Monographs on Australian Lepidoptera 4: xiv+529, CSIRO: Melbourne.
Häuser, Ch. L. & Boppre, M., 1997: A revision of the Afrotropical taxa of the genus Amerila Walker (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Systematic Entomology 22 (1): 1–44.
Ignatev, N., László, G.M., Fric, Z.F. & Przybyłowicz, Ł 2022. A new species of the genus Amerila Walker, 1855 from Tanzania (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Amerilini). Ecologica Montenegrina 52: 1-11. DOI: 10.37828/em.2022.52.1. . Reference page.
Kôda, N., 1989: A Generic Classification of the Subfamily Arctiinae of the Palaearctic and Oriental Regions based on the Male and Female Genitalia (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae) Part I. Tyô to Ga 38 (3): 153–237. Abstract and full article: [2].
Przybyłowicz, L., Tarcz, S., László, G.M., Sáfián, S. & Zilli, A. 2019. Revision of the Amerila syntomina Species Complex with Description of a New Species from West Africa (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Annales Zoologici 69(4): 703–717. DOI: 10.3161/00034541ANZ2019.69.4.006 Reference page.
Przybyłowicz, L., Maicher, V., László, G.M., Sáfián, S. & Tropek, R. 2019. Amerila (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae) of Cameroon with morphological remarks on male and female genitalia. Zootaxa 4674(2): 283–295. DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4674.2.8 pdf Reference page.
Spitsyn, V.M. & Bolotov, I.N. 2020c. A review of the tiger moth genus Amerila Walker, 1855 from Flores Island, Indonesia, with a description of a new species (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae). Ecologica Montenegrina 33: 1-7. DOI: 10.37828/em.2020.33.1. . Reference page.