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Amerila
Amerila is a genus of moths in the subfamily Arctiinae.
The genus is placed in a monotypic tribe Amerilini, described by Vladimir Viktorovitch Dubatolov in 2010. They are sometimes (e.g. in the "Erebidae" scheme) incorrectly merged into the Phaegopterini, but morphologically the tribe is related to Callimorphini. The elder name Rhodogastriini Kiriakoff, 1950 was based on incorrectly determined genus Rhodogastria (=Amerila in modern sense).
60 branches of this genus, most-observed first

Amerila astreus
speciesAmerila astreus

Walker's frother
speciesAmerila rubripes

Croker's Frother
speciesAmerila crokeri

Amerila vitrea
speciesAmerila vitrea

White Frother
speciesAmerila bubo

Timoli's Frother
speciesAmerila timolis

Amerila omissa
speciesAmerila omissa

Small Redtail Frother
speciesAmerila lupia

Albert's Frother
speciesAmerila alberti

Amerila nigropunctata
speciesAmerila nigropunctata

Amerila affinis
speciesAmerila affinis

Silky Frother
speciesAmerila serica

Amerila phaedra
speciesAmerila phaedra

Baur's Frother
speciesAmerila bauri

Amerila eugenia
speciesAmerila eugenia

Amerila madagascariensis
speciesAmerila madagascariensis

Amerila luteibarba
speciesAmerila luteibarba

Amerila arthusbertrand
speciesAmerila arthusbertrand

Amerila albivitrea
speciesAmerila albivitrea

Amerila brunnea
speciesAmerila brunnea

Amerila puella
speciesAmerila puella

Amerila vidua
speciesAmerila vidua

Amerila fennia
speciesAmerila fennia

Amerila magnifica
speciesAmerila magnifica

Amerila mulleri
speciesAmerila mulleri

Amerila leucoptera
speciesAmerila leucoptera

Amerila catinca
speciesAmerila catinca

Amerila rosenfeldae
speciesAmerila rosenfeldae
Amerila shimbaensis
speciesAmerila shimbaensis

Amerila niveivitrea
speciesAmerila niveivitrea
Amerila androfusca
speciesAmerila androfusca

Amerila caudipennis
speciesAmerila caudipennis
Amerila abdominalis
speciesAmerila abdominalis

Amerila syntomina
speciesAmerila syntomina
Amerila nivaria
speciesAmerila nivaria

Amerila carneola
speciesAmerila carneola

Amerila castanea
speciesAmerila castanea

Amerila roseomarginata
speciesAmerila roseomarginata

Amerila femina
speciesAmerila femina
Amerila nigroapicalis
speciesAmerila nigroapicalis
Amerila lineolata
speciesAmerila lineolata
Asbolopsyche parasordida
speciesAsbolopsyche parasordida
Asurgylla collenettei
speciesAsurgylla collenettei
Amerila alexandrae
speciesAmerila alexandrae
Amerila kiellandi
speciesAmerila kiellandi
Amerila lactea
speciesAmerila lactea
Amerila simillima
speciesAmerila simillima

Amerila curta
speciesAmerila curta
Amerila rufitarsus
speciesAmerila rufitarsus
Amerila crockeri
speciesAmerila crockeri

Amerila piepersii
speciesAmerila piepersii

Amerila erythropus
speciesAmerila erythropus

Amerila rhodopa
speciesAmerila rhodopa
Amerila bipartita
speciesAmerila bipartita
Amerila rothi
speciesAmerila rothi
Amerila howardi
speciesAmerila howardi
Amerila fuscivena
speciesAmerila fuscivena

Amerila fumida
speciesAmerila fumida
Amerila nigrivenosa
speciesAmerila nigrivenosa
Amerila rufifemur
speciesAmerila rufifemur
Where it lives
Recorded sightings
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geo-referenced records in GBIF, from museums, herbaria and field observers.
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In the stacks
Searching the stacks…
Every page naming Amerila in the Biodiversity Heritage Library →
This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 126085.