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Amerila leucoptera is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by George Hampson in 1901. It is found in Benin, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia.[1]

Amerila leucoptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Amerila
Species:	A. leucoptera
Binomial name
Amerila leucoptera (Hampson, 1901)
Synonyms
Rhodogastria leucoptera Hampson, 1901 Rhodogastria pannosa Grünberg, 1908 Rhodogastria sarconota Hampson, 1911

References

• Grünberg, K., 1908: Neue Lepidopteren aus Uganda. Sitzungsberichte der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin 1908: 50-62.
• Hampson, G., 1901: Catalogue of the Arctiadae (Arctianae) and Agaristidae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History). Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the collection of the British Museum (Natural History) 3: XII+609 p., pl. 36-54, London.
• Hampson, G.F., 1911: Descriptions of new genera and species of Syntomidæ, Arctiadæ, Agaristidæ, and Noctuidæ. The Annals and Magazine of Natural History (8) 8: 394-445.
• 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.

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