Sthenoprocris malgassica

Sthenoprocris malgassica
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Zygaenidae
Subfamily: Procridinae
Genus: Sthenoprocris
Species: S. malgassica
Binomial name
Sthenoprocris malgassica
Hampson, 1920

Sthenoprocris malgassica is a species of moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is known from Madagascar.[1]

This species has a wingspan of 20 millimetres (0.79 in), it is black-brown with an orange-yellow band on the thorax just behind the head.[2]

References

  1. ↑ afromoths
  2. ↑ Hampson 1920a. On new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae, with the characters of two new families. - Novitates Zoologicae 26(2):253–282 (on page 275)


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