Amerila vitrea is a species of moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It was described by Carl Plötz in 1880. It is found in Angola, Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, The Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, the Gambia, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Madagascar, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]
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mating, Ghana
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Amerila |
| Species: | A. vitrea
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| Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880
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Subspecies edit
- Amerila vitrea vitrea
- Amerila vitrea saalmuelleri (Rothschild, 1911) (the Comoros and Madagascar)
References edit
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Amerila vitrea Plötz, 1880". Afromoths. Retrieved August 9, 2019.
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