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Cheligium lineatum is a moth in the family Lasiocampidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893. It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

The wingspan is about 110 mm. Both wings are palish brown, the forewings with a curved, longitudinal paler stripe from the base below the cell to the costa almost into the apex. The hindwings are uniform and slightly darker than the forewings.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Cheligium lineatum​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
2. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Cheligium lineatum (Aurivillius, 1893)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
3. Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1 October 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. ISSN 0374-5481. This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.

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