Alpenus maculosus  Alpenus maculosus is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Caspar Stoll in 1781. It is found along the Gold Coast and in Lagos, Sierra Leone, Guinea, Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, the Republic of the Congo, Uganda, eastern Africa and Zimbabwe. The larvae feed on "Commelina", "Aster", "Bidens pilosa", "Senecio abyssinicus", "Ipomoea", "Zea mays", "Arachis hypogaea", "Phaseolus", "Pseudarthria", "Voandzeia subterranea", "Gossypium" and "Theobroma cacao".