Rhipidarctia flaviceps

Rhipidarctia flaviceps is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Nigeria and Togo.[1]

Rhipidarctia flaviceps
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Rhipidarctia
Species:
R. flaviceps
Binomial name
Rhipidarctia flaviceps
(Hampson, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Metarctia flaviceps Hampson, 1898
  • Rhipidarctia cornelia Kiriakoff, 1957
  • Rhipidarctia pallidipes Aurivillius, 1925
  • Elsa rubrosuffusa Kiriakoff, 1953

References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Rhipidarctia flaviceps (Hampson, 1898)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 1, 2018.


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