Chrysotypus dawsoni
| Chrysotypus dawsoni | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Thyrididae |
| Subfamily: | Thyridinae |
| Genus: | Chrysotypus |
| Species: | C. dawsoni |
| Binomial name | |
| Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897[1] | |
| Synonyms | |
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Chrysotypus dawsoni is a species of moth of the Thyrididae family.
It is found in Togo, Cameroon, Sierra Leone, Uganda, Tanzania and South Africa.[2]
The body of this species is red brown, and the underside of the thorax is whitish. The wings are yellow brown with irregular dark brown lines with a wingspan of 34–48 mm.[3]
References
- ↑ Distant, 1897d. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)20:197–211.
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ (in German) Gaede, Max, 1916, Die äthiopischen Thyrididen nach dem Material des Berliner zoologischen Museums.-Mitteilungen aus dem Zoologischen Museum in Berlin. 8. bd., 3. hft.:381, fig.10
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