Amerila omissa
Appearance
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
Genus: | Amerila |
Species: | A. omissa
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Binomial name | |
Amerila omissa (Rothschild, 1910)
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Amerila omissa is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae first described by Walter Rothschild in 1910. It is found from the north-eastern parts of the Himalayas, through China and Malaysia to Borneo.
On Mount Kinabalu the species can be found as high as 2600 m above sea level but is mainly found in the lower alpine regions around 1000 m above sea level.[1]
References
[edit]- ^ Holloway, Jeremy Daniel. "Amerila omissa Rothschild". The Moths of Borneo. Retrieved August 25, 2019.