Dasychira colini

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Dasychira colini
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dasychira
Species:
D. colini
Binomial name
Dasychira colini
(Mabille, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Areas coliniMabille, 1893

Dasychira colini is a species of moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Paul Mabille in 1893. It is known from Madagascar and Senegal. [1] [ failed verification ]

The female has a wingspan of 52 mm. The wings are of pure and uniform white colour. Body is snow white, back of rings in palish yellow. Mabille named this species after the director of the Royal Observatory of Madagascar, R. P. E. Colin. [2]

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References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. "Unknown". Afromoths.[ permanent dead link ]
  2. Mabille (1893). Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique. 37: 58. (in French)