Olapa tavetensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by William Jacob Holland in 1892.[1]
Olapa tavetensis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Erebidae |
Subfamily: | Lymantriinae |
Genus: | Olapa |
Species: | O. tavetensis |
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Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892) | |
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It is found in Burundi, Cameroon, Comoros, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Nigeria, South Africa, Sudan and Tanzania.[2]
This species has a wingspan of 40 mm. The wings are white with two minute black spots at the end of the cells of the primaries.[3]
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