Filiola occidentale

Filiola occidentale
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Lasiocampidae
Genus:	Filiola
Species:	F. occidentale
Binomial name
	Filiola occidentale; (Strand, 1912)
Synonyms
	Taragama ligniclusum var. occidentale Strand, 1912; Pachypasa subhyalina Bethune-Baker, 1927;

Filiola occidentale is a moth in the family Lasiocampidae. It was described by Strand in 1912.^[1] It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, Ivory Coast and Nigeria.^[2]

The wingspan is about 86 mm. The forewings are brownish grey, with a dark, irregular, very oblique, somewhat dentate stripe from the inner margin near the base to well beyond the cell, where it is rounded basewards slightly to the costa. Beyond this is a second irregular similar stripe extending to the costa almost to the apex, whilst in the subterminal area there is a trace of another stripe. The hindwings are rather transparent white, with the apex and termen to vein two mauve-grey.^[3]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Filiola occidentale". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.
^ Afro Moths
^ Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1927. Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)20:321–334

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Filiola occidentale". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 24, 2018.

[2] Afro Moths

[3] Bethune-Baker, G. T. 1927. Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (9)20:321–334

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