Afrocoscinia
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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: | Afrocoscinia Dubatolov, 2011 |
| Species: | A. aethiopica
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| Afrocoscinia aethiopica (Kühne, 2010)
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Afrocoscinia is a curious genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2011. The genus includes only one species, Afrocoscinia aethiopica, described by Lars Kühne in 2010,[1] which is found in the arid regions of the western part of South Africa. By the general appearance of wing and body shape, it looks like species of the Palearctic genus Coscinia from Callimorphina. But many other characteristics of this moth show that is it a member of the Nyctemerina.[2][3]
References
- ^ Kühne, L. (2010). "Taxonomische Ergebnisse der Bearbeitung der Nachfalterfauna des südlichen Afrikas (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea)". Esperiana Memoir. 5: 433-456.
- ^ Dubatolov, V. V. (2011). "Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae)". Atalanta. 42 (1/2): 125-135.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Afrocoscinia Dubatolov, 2011". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved August 23, 2019.
- Pitkin, Brian & Jenkins, Paul. "Search results Family: Arctiidae". Butterflies and Moths of the World. Natural History Museum, London.