Doratopteryx plumigera

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Doratopteryx plumigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Himantopteridae
Genus:
Doratopteryx
Species:
D. plumigera
Binomial name
Doratopteryx plumigera
Butler, 1888

Doratopteryx plumigera is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1888. [1] It is found in South Africa and Tanzania. [2]

The wingspan is 13–20 mm. The forewings are semitransparent fuliginous grey with the discoidal cell and interno-basal half golden fulvous. The veins are black. The hindwings are golden fulvous to the commencement of the tail, the latter blackish, crossed by a belt of ochreous at the commencement of its expansion, which is beyond the middle. The head and thorax are shining pitch-brown and the collar and two spots on the prothorax orange. The abdomen is dull orange and the legs are brown. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Doratopteryx plumigera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Butler, A.G. (1888). On three extremely interesting new Moths of the Family Chalcosiidae from Kilima-njaro and Natal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 6 1: 48 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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