Stenoglene thelda

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Stenoglene thelda
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Stenoglene
Species:
S. thelda
Binomial name
Stenoglene thelda
(Druce, 1887)
Synonyms
  • Chrysopoloma theldaDruce, 1887

Stenoglene thelda is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Druce in 1887. [1] It is found in Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga, Orientale) and Sierra Leone. [2]

Description

The forewings are brownish fawn, thickly irrorated with white scales and with a small V-shaped brown mark on the costal close to the apex, as well as a brown mark along the outer margin. There is a curved line of black lunular-shaped marks extending from the apex to the inner margin above the anal angle. The hindwings are pale yellow, crossed below the middle by two fawn-coloured bands of lunular-shaped marks, the first not reaching the costal margin. There are three patches of dark-brown hairs on the inner margin. [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). "Stenoglene thelda". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 28, 2018.
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  3. Druce, H. 1887b. Descriptions of some new species of Lepidoptera Heterocera, mostly from tropical Africa. - Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1887: p. 677 PD-icon.svgThis article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .