Alpenus

Genus of moths

Alpenus

Scientific classification
Domain:  | Eukaryota
Kingdom:  | Animalia
Phylum:  | Arthropoda
Class:  | Insecta
Order:  | Lepidoptera
Superfamily:  | Noctuoidea
Family:  | Erebidae
Subfamily:  | Arctiinae
Subtribe:  | Spilosomina
Genus:  | Alpenus
Walker, 1855
Type species
Alpenus aequalis

Walker, 1855

Synonyms

* Eminaria Bethune-Baker, 1908

Alpenus is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae. The moths are found in the Afrotropics.

## Species

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* Alpenus affiniola (Strand, 1919)
* Alpenus auriculatus Watson, 1989
* Alpenus diversatus (Hampson, 1916)
* Alpenus dollmani (Hampson, 1920)
* Alpenus geminipuncta (Hampson, 1916)
* Alpenus intactus (Hampson, 1916)
* Alpenus investigatorum (Karsch, 1898)
* Alpenus maculosus (Stoll in Cramer, 1781)
* Alpenus microstictus (Hampson, 1920)
* Alpenus nigropunctatus (Bethune-Baker, 1908)
* Alpenus pardalina (Rothschild, 1910)
* Alpenus schraderi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Alpenus schraderi rattrayi (Rothschild, 1910)
* Alpenus thomasi Watson, 1989
* Alpenus whalleyi Watson, 1989
* Alpenus wichgrafi Watson, 1989

## References

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* Watson, A., 1988 [1989]: A review of Spilosoma-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). Entomologica Scandinavica 19: 251-291.
* Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.

Taxon identifiers

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* Wikidata: Q4734823
* Wikispecies: Alpenus
* BioLib: 524362
* BOLD: 388323
* ButMoth: 1073.0
* GBIF: 1805816
* iNaturalist: 446996
* IRMNG: 1410051
* LepIndex: 40525
* Open Tree of Life: 3186551

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