Semioptila dolicholoba

Semioptila dolicholoba is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by George Hampson in 1920.[1] It is found in Malawi.[2]

Semioptila dolicholoba
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Himantopteridae
Genus:
Semioptila
Species:
S. dolicholoba
Binomial name
Semioptila dolicholoba
Hampson, 1920

The wingspan is 24–26 mm. The head, thorax and abdomen are fulvous (tawny) orange, the last dorsally suffused with chocolate brown except the terminal segment. The antennae are black brown and the legs are brown. The forewings are fulvous orange below the costa to near the end of the cell, in the cell to the origin of vein 2 and below vein 2 to the termen, the costa and rest of the wing are dark brown, leaving a little orange above the base of vein 2 and at the termen extending to just below vein 2. A round fulvous-orange spot is found beyond the discocellulars. The hindwings are fulvous orange to the lobe, then black brown with a large, somewhat elliptical fulvous-orange spot on the lobe, its inner edge produced inwards to a spur above vein 4.[3]

References
  1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Semioptila dolicholoba". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 14, 2018.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Hampson G. F. 1920a. On new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae, with the characters of two new families. - Novitates Zoologicae 26(2):253–282. p. 268


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