# Alpenus

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{{Short description|Genus of moths}}
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| taxon = Alpenus
| authority = [Walker](/source/Francis_Walker_(entomologist)), 1855
| type_species = ''[Alpenus aequalis](/source/Alpenus_maculosus)''
| type_species_authority = Walker, 1855
| synonyms = * ''Eminaria'' <small>Bethune-Baker, 1908</small>
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'''''Alpenus''''' is a [genus](/source/genus) of [tiger moth](/source/Arctiinae_(erebid_moths))s in the family [Erebidae](/source/Erebidae). The moths are found in the [Afrotropics](/source/Afrotropics).

==Species==
* ''[Alpenus affiniola](/source/Alpenus_affiniola)'' <small>(Strand, 1919)</small>
* ''[Alpenus auriculatus](/source/Alpenus_auriculatus)'' <small>Watson, 1989</small>
* ''[Alpenus diversatus](/source/Alpenus_diversatus)'' <small>(Hampson, 1916)</small>
* ''[Alpenus dollmani](/source/Alpenus_dollmani)'' <small>(Hampson, 1920)</small>
* ''[Alpenus geminipuncta](/source/Alpenus_geminipuncta)'' <small>(Hampson, 1916)</small>
* ''[Alpenus intactus](/source/Alpenus_intactus)'' <small>(Hampson, 1916)</small>
* ''[Alpenus investigatorum](/source/Alpenus_investigatorum)'' <small>(Karsch, 1898)</small>
* ''[Alpenus maculosus](/source/Alpenus_maculosus)'' <small>(Stoll in Cramer, 1781)</small>
* ''[Alpenus microstictus](/source/Alpenus_microstictus)'' <small>(Hampson, 1920)</small>
* ''[Alpenus nigropunctatus](/source/Alpenus_nigropunctatus)'' <small>(Bethune-Baker, 1908)</small>
* ''[Alpenus pardalina](/source/Alpenus_pardalina)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
* ''[Alpenus schraderi](/source/Alpenus_schraderi)'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
** ''Alpenus schraderi rattrayi'' <small>(Rothschild, 1910)</small>
* ''[Alpenus thomasi](/source/Alpenus_thomasi)'' <small>Watson, 1989</small>
* ''[Alpenus whalleyi](/source/Alpenus_whalleyi)'' <small>Watson, 1989</small>
* ''[Alpenus wichgrafi](/source/Alpenus_wichgrafi)'' <small>Watson, 1989</small>

==References==
*{{aut|Watson, A.}}, 1988 [1989]: A review of ''Spilosoma''-like Afrotropical tiger-moths (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Entomologica Scandinavica'' '''19''': 251-291.
*{{cite web |last1=Pitkin |first1=Brian |last2=Jenkins |first2=Paul |name-list-style=amp |url=http://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/butmoth/search/GenusList3.dsml?&FAMILY=Arctiidae&sort=GENUS |title=Search results Family: Arctiidae |website=Butterflies and Moths of the World |publisher=Natural History Museum, London}}

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Category:Spilosomina
Category:Noctuoidea genera
Category:Taxa named by Francis Walker (entomologist)

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