Utetheisa amhara Jordan, 1939

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FAMILY Erebidae
SUBFAMILY Arctiinae
GENUS Utetheisa
SPECIES amhara
AUTHORJordan, 1939
ORIGINAL COMBINATIONUtetheisa amhara spec. nov.
TYPE LOCALITY[Ethiopia], Abyssinia; [Somalia], northern districts of Somaliland; Kenya (migrant ?).
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES /
TYPE SPECIMEN(S) 170 Syntypes ♂, ♀, BMNH.
STATUS Species
PUBLICATION Jordan K. 1939b. On the constancy and variability of the differences between the Old world species of Utetheisa (Lepid., Arctiidae). - Novitates Zoologicae 41:251–291.
PAGINATION 276, figs. 239–241

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Species Distribution

COUNTRY PROVINCE/STATE PUBLICATION PAGE
Eritrea   Jordan K. 1939b. On the constancy and variability of the differences between the Old world species of Utetheisa (Lepid., Arctiidae). - Novitates Zoologicae 41:251–291. 276
Ethiopia   Jordan K. 1939b. On the constancy and variability of the differences between the Old world species of Utetheisa (Lepid., Arctiidae). - Novitates Zoologicae 41:251–291. 276
Kenya   Jordan K. 1939b. On the constancy and variability of the differences between the Old world species of Utetheisa (Lepid., Arctiidae). - Novitates Zoologicae 41:251–291. 276
Saudi Arabia   Wiltshire E. P. 1990. An illustrated, annotated catalogue of the Macro-Heterocera of Saudi Arabia. – In: Büttiker, W. & Krupp, F. (Eds.). Fauna of Saudi Arabia. - Fauna of Saudi Arabia 11:91–250. 152
Somalia   Jordan K. 1939b. On the constancy and variability of the differences between the Old world species of Utetheisa (Lepid., Arctiidae). - Novitates Zoologicae 41:251–291. 276
United Arab Emirates   Fibiger M. & Legrain A. 2009. Order Lepidoptera, superfamily Noctuoidea. – In: van Harten, A. (ed.) Arthropod fauna of the UAE. - — 2:480—660. 564
Yemen   Hacker H. H. 2016a. Systematic and illustrated catalogue of the Macroheterocera and Cossoidea Leach, [1815], Zygaenoidea Latreille, 1809, Thyridoidea Herrich-Schäffer, 1846 and Hyblaeoidea Hampson, 1903 of the Arabian Peninsula, with a survey of their distribution (Lepid.). - Esperiana 20(1):1–742; (2): 1–430. 208

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