Filiola occidentale

Filiola occidentale
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Lasiocampidae
Genus: Filiola
Species: F. occidentale
Binomial name
Filiola occidentale
(Strand, 1912)
Synonyms
  • Taragama ligniclusum var. occidentale Strand, 1912
  • Pachypasa subhyalina Bethune-Baker, 1927

Filiola occidentale is a moth in the Lasiocampidae family. It was described by Strand in 1912.[1] It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.[2]

The wingspan is about 86 mm. The forewings are brownish grey, with a dark, irregular, very oblique, somewhat dentate stripe from the inner margin near the base to well beyond the cell, where it is rounded basewards slightly to the costa. Beyond this is a second irregular similar stripe extending to the costa almost to the apex, whilst in the subterminal area there is a trace of another stripe. The hindwings are rather transparent white, with the apex and termen to vein two mauve-grey.[3]

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