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Dasychira colini

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Species of moth

Dasychira colini
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Genus: Dasychira
Species: D. colini
Binomial name
Dasychira colini
(Mabille, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Areas colini Mabille, 1893

Dasychira colini is a species of moth of the subfamily Lymantriinae first described by Paul Mabille in 1893. It is known from Madagascar and Senegal.

The female has a wingspan of 52 mm. The wings are of pure and uniform white colour. Body is snow white, back of rings in palish yellow. Mabille named this species after the director of the Royal Observatory of Madagascar, R. P. E. Colin.

References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. "Unknown". Afromoths.
  2. Mabille (1893). Annales de la Société entomologique de Belgique. 37: 58. (in French)
Taxon identifiers
Dasychira colini


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