Nudaurelia xanthomma is a moth of the family Saturniidae. It is known from Cameroon, Ghana and Sierra Leone.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Saturniidae |
| Genus: | Nudaurelia |
| Species: | N. xanthomma
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| Nudaurelia xanthomma (Rothschild, 1907)
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The body of the male of this species has a length of 34 millimetres (1.3 in), its forewings a length of 65 mm (2.6 in) and a width of 29 mm (1.1 in), with a wingspan of 117 mm (4.6 in).
The ground colour of the forewings is brownish red-yellow, the underside is yellow-brown.[2]
Subspecies
edit- Nudaurelia xanthomma xanthomma (Rothschild, 1907) (Sierra Leone/Ghana)
- Nudaurelia xanthomma amathusia Weymer, 1909 (from Cameroon)
References
edit- Rothschild 1907c. New African Saturniidae. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (7)20:1–10.
- ^ afromoths
- ^ (in German) Weymer, G. W. 1909. Exotische Lepidopteren. - Deutsche entomologische Zeitschrift, Iris 22:1–35 - on page 7-8
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