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Afrocelestis evertata

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Afrocelestis evertata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tineidae
Genus: Afrocelestis
Species:
A. evertata
Binomial name
Afrocelestis evertata
Gozmány, 1965

Afrocelestis evertata is a moth of the family Tineidae. It was described by Hungarian entomologist László Anthony Gozmány in 1965 and is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.[1]

The wingspan of this species is 10 mm. Head, scalp and thorax are light ivory grey with some yellowish suffusion. Its pattern is brownish but not too distinct: a spot on the shoulder, a triangular one at one-third on the costa, three other smaller spots on the costa in the apical third and three even smaller ones on the termen.[2]

The types were provided from Elisabethville (now Lubumbashi) 27-ix-1937 (Ch.Speidel).

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