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 family Lasiocampidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher 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

Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cheligium lineatum". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.
De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Cheligium lineatum (Aurivillius, 1893)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1 October 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. ISSN 0374-5481.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Cheligium lineatum". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 17, 2018.

[2] De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Cheligium lineatum (Aurivillius, 1893)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 15, 2017.

[3] Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1 October 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. ISSN 0374-5481.