Chrysotypus dawsoni

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Chrysotypus dawsoni
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Thyrididae
Genus: Chrysotypus
Species:
C. dawsoni
Binomial name
Chrysotypus dawsoni
Distant, 1897 [1]
Synonyms
  • Proterozeuxis acuatalisGaede, 1917
  • Proterozeuxis ansorgeiWarren, 1899
  • Proterozeuxis brunneaWarren, 1908
  • Chrysotypus pectinifer (Hampson, 1906)

Chrysotypus dawsoni is a species of moth of the family Thyrididae.

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]

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References

  1. ↑ Distant, 1897d. On a collection of Heterocera made in the Transvaal. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (6)20:197–211.
  2. ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Chrysotypus dawsoni Distant, 1897". Afromoths. Retrieved November 17, 2017.
  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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