Nudaurelia richelmanni

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Nudaurelia richelmanni
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N. richelmanni
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Nudaurelia richelmanni
Weymer, 1909

Nudaurelia richelmanni is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is known from Tanzania. [1]

The body of the male of this species has a length of 32mm, its forewings a length of 60mm (with a width of 30mm) and it has a wingspan of 109 millimetres (4.3 in). The ground colour of the forewings is red-yellow, similar to Nudaurelia gueinzii (Staudinger, 1872), finely brownish-violet dusted, particularly at the costa. [2]

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