Chamanthedon aurantiibasis
Chamanthedon aurantiibasis is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from eastern Peru.
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| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Sesiidae |
| Genus: | Chamanthedon |
| Species: | C. aurantiibasis |
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| Chamanthedon aurantiibasis (Rothschild, 1911)[1] | |
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The length of the forewings is about 7 mm. The legs and palpi are orange yellow and the antennae are brown. The head is black and the thorax black brown with two blue spots and brick-red sides. The abdomen is brick red and the anal tuft wood brown. The forewing basal third is brick red and the median half is hyaline (glass like). The hindwings are hyaline with reddish brown.[2]
References
- Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Chamanthedon aurantiibasis". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved April 28, 2018.
- Rothschild, Walter (June 1911). "New Aegeriidae". Novitates Zoologicae. 18: 46.
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