Micralarctia punctulatum (Wallengren, 1860) 
             
            SYNONYMS
            Spilosoma punctulata, Spilosoma auricinctum, Spilosoma nivaria, Diacrisa nyassama, Amsacta evadne, Spilosoma euproctina, Spilosoma edlingeri, Diacrisa albescens, Estigmene schraderi. 
             
            SPECIES IN GENUS :- 5 
            australis, punctulatum, semipura, stictographa, toulgoeti, 
             
            DISTRIBUTION
            Angola, Botswana, Cameroon, DRCongo, Djibouti, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, South Africa, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, 
             
            LARVAL FOODPLANTS
            Ipomoea batatas, Gossypium, Oryza sativa,