''Maurica joiceyi'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

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 George Talbot in 1928. It is found in

North Africa North Africa, or Northern Africa is a region encompassing the northern portion of the African continent. There is no singularly accepted scope for the region, and it is sometimes defined as stretching from the Atlantic shores of Mauritania in ...

Subspecies

*''Maurica joiceyi joiceyi'' *''Maurica joiceyi monticola'' (Reisser, 1934) *''Maurica joiceyi chneouri'' (Rungs, 1951)

References

* Spilosomina Moths described in 1928 {{Spilosomina-stub