Nudaurelia xanthomma

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Nudaurelia xanthomma
Nudaurelia amathusia - Cameroon.jpg
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Nudaurelia
Species:
N. xanthomma
Binomial name
Nudaurelia xanthomma
(Rothschild, 1907)
Synonyms
  • Imbrasia anthina xanthommaRothschild, 1907
  • Nudaurelia amathusiaWeymer, 1909

Nudaurelia xanthomma is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is known from Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone. [1]

The body of the male of this species has a length of 34 millimetres (1.3 in), its forewings a length of 65 mm (2.6 in) and a width of 29 mm (1.1 in), with a wingspan of 117 mm (4.6 in).

The ground colour of the forewings is brownish red-yellow, the underside is yellow-brown. [2]

Subspecies

References

  1. afromoths
  2. (in German) Weymer, G. W. 1909. Exotische Lepidopteren. - Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 22:1–35 - on page 7-8