Hypopyra capensis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Erebidae
- Genus
- Hypopyra
- Species
- Hypopyra capensis
- Scientific Name
- Hypopyra capensis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Hypopyra capensis
Hypopyra capensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1854. This moth species is commonly found in Africa, ranging from Sierra Leone, South Africa, Zaire, Eswatini to Zambia.
...Hypopyra capensis in languages:
- Afrikaans
- Rooistertuilmot
- English
- Redtail Moth
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Hypopyra africana
- Hypopyra allardi
- Hypopyra capensis
- Hypopyra carneotincta
- Hypopyra contractipennis
- Hypopyra feniseca
- Hypopyra guttata
- Hypopyra lactipex
- Hypopyra leucochiton
- Hypopyra malgassica
- Hypopyra megalesia
- Hypopyra meridionalis
- Hypopyra ossigera
- Hypopyra ossigeroides
- Hypopyra pallidigera
- Hypopyra pudens
- Hypopyra rufescens
- Hypopyra signata
- Hypopyra spermatophora
- Hypopyra unistrigata
- Hypopyra vespertilio
- Hypopyra villicosta