Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Arctiidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Amerila | |
Amerila mulleri is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Häuser and Boppre in 1997. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.
Comments
This species had first been discovered by Simon Muller when examining material from Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria and Natural History Museum in London, who had given it the name ‘alba’ in an unpublished graduation thesis (Muller, 1980: 65). As a valid description of that name had never been published, Häuser and Boppré (1997) took the pleasure to name this species in dedication to its discoverer.
References
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