Doratopteryx xanthomelas

Doratopteryx xanthomelas is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by Walter Rothschild and Karl Jordan in 1903.[1] It is found in Angola.[2]

Doratopteryx xanthomelas
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Himantopteridae
Genus: Doratopteryx
Species:
D. xanthomelas
Binomial name
Doratopteryx xanthomelas

The body and wings are ochreous orange, the forewing from apical third of cell to the apex and hindwing from the apical fourth of the wider proximal part of wing to the tip of the tail black. The antennae are brown. The forewings have a very small orange dot at the apex of the cell and there are four subcostal spots, the first close before the apex of the cell, the other three stalked together, the last standing near the cell.[3]

References

  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Doratopteryx xanthomelas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
  2. "AfroMoths". www.afromoths.net. Retrieved 2017-07-26.
  3. Novitates Zoologicae. v10: 484 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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