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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Stenoglene |
Species: | S. roseus
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Binomial name | |
Stenoglene roseus (Druce, 1886)
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Stenoglene roseus is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Druce in 1886.[1] It is found in Burundi, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga, East Kasai, Bas Congo), Ivory Coast, Kenya, Malawi, Mozambique, Nigeria and Uganda.[2]
Description
The wingspan is about 54 mm. Both wings are pale golden ochreous, the forewings with a broadish postmedian, concave, rusty transverse band, broadening as it approaches the inner margin near the tornus. The hindwings are immaculate.[3]
References
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Stenoglene roseus". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 28, 2018.
- ^ Afro Moths
- ^ Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1927. Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)20:321–334
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