''Rhipidarctia silacea'' is a

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. It was described by

Plötz Plötz () is a village and a former municipality in the Saalekreis district, Saxony-Anhalt, Germany. Since 1 January 2011, it is part of the town Wettin-Löbejün Wettin-Löbejün () is a town in the district Saalekreis, in Saxony-Anhalt, in ea ...

in 1880. It is found in

Nigeria Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria, is a country in West Africa. It is situated between the Sahel to the north and the Gulf of Guinea in the Atlantic Ocean to the south. It covers an area of . With Demographics of Nigeria, ...

.Afro Moths
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References

Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Moths described in 1880 Syntomini Taxa named by Carl Plötz Moths of Sub-Saharan Africa {{Syntomini-stub