''Eyralpenus scioana'' is a
moth of the family
Erebidae
The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...
. It was described by
Charles Oberthür
Charles Oberthür (14 September 1845 – 1 June 1924) was a French amateur entomologist specializing in lepidoptera.
Biography
Charles Oberthür was born in Rennes, the son of the printer François-Charles Oberthür and Marie Hamelin, and brot ...
in 1880. It is found in
Angola,
Cameroon, the
Democratic Republic of the Congo,
Ethiopia,
Kenya,
Malawi,
Mozambique,
Namibia,
Tanzania,
Uganda,
Zambia and
Zimbabwe.
The larvae feed on ''
Ipomoea'' species.
Subspecies
* ''Eyralpenus scioana scioana''
* ''Eyralpenus scioana intensa''
(Rothschild, 1910)
* ''Eyralpenus scioana paucipunctata''
(Kiriakoff, 1963)
References
*
Spilosomina
Moths described in 1880
Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa
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