Cheligium lineatum

Cheligium lineatum
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lasiocampidae
Genus: Cheligium
Species: C. lineatum
Binomial name
Cheligium lineatum
(Aurivillius, 1893)
Synonyms
  • Taragama lineatum Aurivillius, 1893
  • Pachypasa dallana Bethune-Baker, 1927
  • Taragama pulchristriata Bethune-Baker, 1911

Cheligium lineatum is a moth in the Lasiocampidae family. It was described by Aurivillius in 1893.[1] It is found in Angola, Cameroon, Gabon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.[2]

The wingspan is about 110 mm. Both wings are palish brown, the forewings with a curved, longitudinal paler stripe from the base below the cell to the costa almost into the apex. The hindwings are uniform and slightly darker than the forewings.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ 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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