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Macella euritiusalis

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Macella euritiusalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1859. It is known from the Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, Togo and from Madagascar.[1]

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Macella euritiusalis
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Macella
Species:
M. euritiusalis
Binomial name
Macella euritiusalis
(Walker, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Capnodes euritiusalis
  • Capnodes consocia (Walker, 1865)
  • Capnodes disticha (Saalmüller, 1891)
  • Capnodes excentrica (Karsch, 1896)
  • Eucapnodes megalosara (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Capnodes sexmaculata (Walker, 1865)
  • Capnodes trinotata (Walker, 1869)
  • Capnodes margineguttata (Heyden, 1891)
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The wingspan of this species is around 32–34 mm.[2]

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