Scalmicauda tessmanni

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Scalmicauda tessmanni
10-Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911) (Graphidura).JPG
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Notodontidae
Subfamily:
Notodontinae
Genus:
Scalmicauda
Species:
S. tessmanni
Binomial name
Scalmicauda tessmanni
(Strand, 1911)
Synonyms
  • Graphidura tessmanniStrand, 1911
  • Scalmicauda biarculineaBethune-Baker, 1927

Scalmicauda tessmanni is a moth in the family of Notodontidae first described by Embrik Strand in 1911. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Equatorial Guinea Gabon, Malawi, South Africa and Ivory Coast. [1]

The wingspan is about 40 mm. The forewings are pinkish tawny, becoming paler and pinker towards the termen. There is a trace of a fine excurved and recurred subbasal line and there is a pair of fine, curved, parallel dark lines from just in front of the apex on the costa to beyond the middle of the inner margin. The interspace is filled with grey. In the middle of the pinkish posterior area is an indefinite band of pale golden brown, on the exterior edge of which is an interneural series of fine dark lunules. The hindwings are pale brownish. [2]

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References

  1. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Scalmicauda tessmanni (Strand, 1911)". Afromoths. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. ↑ Bethune-Baker, G.T. (1927). "XLVI.—Descriptions of new species of Heterocera from Africa and the East". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (118): 321–334. doi:10.1080/00222932708655457.


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