Afrocerura cameroona

Afrocerura cameroona is a moth in the family Notodontidae first described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1927. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and São Tomé & Principe (São Tomé).[1]

Afrocerura cameroona
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Notodontidae
Subfamily:
Notodontinae
Genus:
Afrocerura
Species:
A. cameroona
Binomial name
Afrocerura cameroona
Synonyms
  • Cerura cameroona Bethune-Baker, 1927
  • Cerura thomensis Talbot, 1929

The wingspan is about 60 mm. Both wings are shining snow white, with a few black markings. The forewings have a trace of an oblique interrupted black dash in the fold and a trace of a median interrupted line, visible as a small black costal mark. There is also a trace of another line in the cell, and a fair sized mark on the inner margin. There is a trace of two very short black costal dashes beyond the cell, followed by a black wedge-shaped costal mark. A bare trace of a black subterminal line is mainly noticeable by a fair sized black mark on the inner margin almost in the tornus. The hindwings are uniform white.[2]

Subspecies
  • Afrocerura cameroona cameroona
  • Afrocerura cameroona thomensis (Talbot, 1929) (São Tomé)
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References
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Afrocerura cameroona (Bethune-Baker, 1927)". Afromoths. Retrieved July 29, 2019.
  2. Bethune-Baker, G.T. (1927). "XLVI.—Descriptions of new species of Heterocera from Africa and the East". Annals and Magazine of Natural History. 20 (118): 321–334. doi:10.1080/00222932708655457.


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