Chrysotypus dawsoni

Chrysotypus dawsoni
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
  • Proterozeuxis acuatalis Gaede, 1917
  • Proterozeuxis ansorgei Warren, 1899
  • Proterozeuxis brunnea Warren, 1908
  • Chrysotypus pectinifer (Hampson, 1906)

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

  1. Distant, 1897d. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)20:197–211.
  2. afromoths.net
  3. (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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