Euchromia folletii Guérin-Méneville, 1832 is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Euchromia folletii Guérin-Méneville, 1832

Euchromia folletii Guérin-Méneville, 1832

Euchromia folletii is a day-flying Arctiinae moth described in 1832, found across multiple countries in Africa and nearby islands.

Family
Genus
Euchromia
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Euchromia folletii Guérin-Méneville, 1832

Euchromia folletii, commonly known as the South African day-flying moth, is a moth species that belongs to the subfamily Arctiinae. This species was first described by Félix Édouard Guérin-Méneville in 1832. Its known distribution includes the Comoros, the Seychelles, Ethiopia, Kenya, Madagascar, Mozambique, Senegal, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania, and more recently, some parts of Nigeria.

Photo: (c) Peter Vos, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Peter Vos · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Euchromia

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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