Afrocoscinia

Afrocoscinia
Afrocoscinia
Afrocoscinia aethiopica, male
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Arctiidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Tribe: Nyctemerini
Genus: Afrocoscinia
Dubatolov, 2011
Species: T. pardalina
Binomial name
Afrocoscinia aethiopica
(Kühne, 2010)
Synonyms
  • Coscinia aethiopica

Afrocoscinia is a curious genus of moth in the family Arctiidae with single species Afrocoscinia aethiopica (Kühne, 2010)[1] from arid regions of the western part of South Africa. By the general appearance of wing and body shape, it looks like species of the Palearctic genus Coscinia from Callimorphini. But many other characters of this moth show that is it a member of Nyctemerini[2].

References

  1. ^ Kühne, L 2010: Taxonomische Ergebnisse der Bearbeitung der Nachfalterfauna des südlichen Afrikas (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea). Esperiana Memoir 5: 433-456.
  2. ^ Dubatolov, VV 2011: Arctiinae from African expeditions of V. Kovtunovich & P. Ustjuzhanin in 2009-2011, with description of new taxa and taxonomic notes (Lepidoptera, Arctiidae). Atalanta 42 (1/2): 125-135.


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