Amerila mulleri

Amerila mulleri is a moth of the family Arctiidae. It was described by Häuser and Boppre in 1997. It is found in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Kenya, Swaziland and Zimbabwe.^[1]

Comments

This species had first been discovered by Simon Muller when examining material from Ditsong National Museum of Natural History in Pretoria and Natural History Museum in London, who had given it the name ‘alba’ in an unpublished graduation thesis (Muller, 1980: 65). As a valid description of that name had never been published, Häuser and Boppré (1997) took the pleasure to name this species in dedication to its discoverer.

References

• Häuser, Ch. L. & Boppre, M., 1997: A revision of the Afrotropical taxa of the genus Amerila Walker (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Systematic Entomology 22 (1): 1-44.
• Muller, S., 1980: Some Afrotropical moths placed in the genera Diacrisia and Rhodogastria (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Arctiinae). – Amsterdam: Biologisch Laboratorium der Vrije Universiteit, 1980: 1-190.