Micralarctia punctulatum

Micralarctia punctulatum is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Hans Daniel Johan Wallengren in 1860. It is found in Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania, Gambia, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.^[1]

Micralarctia punctulatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Erebidae
Subfamily:	Arctiinae
Genus:	Micralarctia
Species:	M. punctulatum
Binomial name
Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860)
Synonyms
Spilosoma punctulatum Wallengren, 1860 Micralarctia punctulata Diacrisia albescens Rothschild, 1910 Spilosoma edlingeri Bartel, 1903 Estigmene schraderi Rothschild, 1910 Spilosoma auricinctum Butler, 1897 Pais nyassana f. haplocraspis Hulstaert, 1923 Amsacta evadne Fawcett, 1915 Spilosoma nivaria Bartel, 1903 Spilosoma nyassana Bartel, 1903 Alpenus purus Butler, 1878 Spilosoma euproctina Aurivillius, 1900

The larvae have been recorded feeding on Ipomoea batates.^[2]

Subspecies

• Micralarctia punctulatum punctulatum (Botswana, Malawi, Namibia, Zimbabwe)
• Micralarctia punctulatum auricinctum (Butler, 1897) (Angola, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia)
• Micralarctia punctulatum euproctina (Aurivillius, 1899 [1900]) (Angola, Cameroon, Ghana, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Tanzania)
• Micralarctia punctulatum pura (Butler, 1878) (Democratic Republic of the Congo, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda)