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Amsacta
Sign in to saveAmsacta is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1855. The genus contains several species that need a review.
Species
Salt Marsh Moth
GENUS
- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyErebidae
Observations70,508
via GBIF
Museum specimens
- Specimen records
- 8
- Family
- Erebidae
- Collections
- FMNH, MNHN
- Recorded in
- India, Australia
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- taxon
- Parent taxon
- Spilosomina
- Image
- Aloa lactinea (Cramer, 1777).jpg
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- taxon name
- Amsacta
- taxon rank
- genus
- topic's main category
- Category:Amsacta
- Commons category
- Amsacta
- taxonomic type
- Amsacta marginalis
- has host
- common sunflower
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Encyclopedic overview
3 sectionsContents
- Species congeneric to the type species
- ''Amsacta sensu lato''
- References
Amsacta is a genus of tiger moths in the family Erebidae erected by Francis Walker in 1855. The genus contains several species that need a review.
== Species congeneric to the type species == Amsacta fuscosa (Bartel, 1903) Amsacta latimarginalis Rothschild, 1933 Amsacta marginalis Walker, 1855
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