Doratopteryx plumigera is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1888.[1] It is found in South Africa and Tanzania.[2]
| Doratopteryx plumigera | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Himantopteridae |
| Genus: | Doratopteryx |
| Species: | D. plumigera
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| Binomial name | |
| Doratopteryx plumigera Butler, 1888
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The wingspan is 13–20 mm. The forewings are semitransparent fuliginous grey with the discoidal cell and interno-basal half golden fulvous. The veins are black. The hindwings are golden fulvous to the commencement of the tail, the latter blackish, crossed by a belt of ochreous at the commencement of its expansion, which is beyond the middle. The head and thorax are shining pitch-brown and the collar and two spots on the prothorax orange. The abdomen is dull orange and the legs are brown.[3]
References edit
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Doratopteryx plumigera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
- ^ Afro Moths
- ^ Butler, A.G. (1888). On three extremely interesting new Moths of the Family Chalcosiidae from Kilima-njaro and Natal. Annals and Magazine of Natural History ser. 6 1: 48
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