Nudaurelia richelmanni

Nudaurelia richelmanni
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Saturniidae
Genus: Nudaurelia
Species:
N. richelmanni
Binomial name
Nudaurelia richelmanni
Weymer, 1909

Nudaurelia richelmanni is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is known from Tanzania.[1]

The body of the male of this species has a length of 32mm, its forewings a length of 60mm (with a width of 30mm) and it has a wingspan of 109 millimetres (4.3 in). The ground colour of the forewings is red-yellow, similar to Nudaurelia gueinzii (Staudinger, 1872), finely brownish-violet dusted, particularly at the costa.[2]

References

  1. ^ afromoths
  2. ^ (in German) Weymer, G. W. 1909. Exotische Lepidopteren. - Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 22:1–35 - on page 6-7


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