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Updated as per Saturnafrica fascicule #12, July 2012, Philip Darge; February 4, 2014 |
Epiphora vicina HT male, Amani Forest Reserve, Tanga Region, Tanzania,
November 5, 2005, 210m, on my home computer, digital repair by Bill Oehlke
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TAXONOMY:Superfamily: Bombycoidea, Latreille, 1802 |
Wind Beneath My Wings |
Male forewings are apically more produced outwardly and in a more narrow fashion compared to the more upwardly produced and broader apex of mythimnia.
In the male, the rectangular white bar extending from the body toward the eyespot falls short of its mark, ending in a relatively straight outer edge with only a hint of an upturn.
The white forewing pm line is not as boldly prominent (wide) as in mythimnia (especially in its upper half), and its inward curve, as it approaches the body side of the costa, is not as strong.
The grey suffusions outside the forewing pm line are not as extensive as in most other species with the exception of leae which also has the darker, wider region in the upper two thirds of the submarginal area.
Epiphora vicina HT male (verso), Amani Forest Reserve, Tanga Region, Tanzania,
November 5, 2005, 210m, on my home computer, digital repair by Bill Oehlke
Epiphora mythimnia female, courtesy of Stephen Ife.
Epiphora vicina AT female, Fukayosi, Pwani Region, Tanzania,
March 4, 2009, 37m, on my home computer, slight digital repair by Bill Oehlke
Epiphora vicina AT female (verso), Fukayosi, Pwani Region, Tanzania,
March 4, 2009, 37m, on my home computer.
Epiphora mythimnia female, courtesy of Stephen Ife.
The species name vicina refers to .
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