Afrocerura cameroona

Afrocerura cameroona
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Notodontinae
Genus: Afrocerura cameroona
Species: A. cameroona
Binomial name
Afrocerura cameroona
(Bethune-Baker, 1927)
Synonyms
  • Cerura cameroona Bethune-Baker, 1927
  • Cerura thomensis Talbot, 1929

Afrocerura cameroona is a moth in the family Notodontidae. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Gabon and São Tomé & Principe (São Tomé).[1]

The wingspan is about 60 mm. Both wings are shining snow white, with a few black markings. The forewings have a trace of an oblique interrupted black dash in the fold and a trace of a median interrupted line, visible as a small black costal mark. There is also a trace of another line in the cell, and a fair sized mark on the inner margin. There is a trace of two very short black costal dashes beyond the cell, followed by a black wedge-shaped costal mark. A bare trace of a black subterminal line is mainly noticeable by a fair sized black mark on the inner margin almost in the tornus. The hindwings are uniform white.[2]

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