Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Superfamily Noctuoidea Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Family Erebidae | |
Similar Metarctia lateritia, Stoermeriana, Leipoxais, Zamarada, Thiacidas | ||
Micralarctia punctulatum is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Wallengren in 1860. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.
The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ipomoea batates.
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