Doratopteryx steniptera

Doratopteryx steniptera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Himantopteridae
Genus:	Doratopteryx
Species:	D. steniptera
Binomial name
	Doratopteryx steniptera; Hampson, 1919

Doratopteryx steniptera is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by George Hampson in 1919.^[1] It is found in Tanzania.^[2]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are semihyaline sparsely clothed with brown scales, the costa and veins dark reddish brown, the area below the cell fulvous orange to beyond the middle. The hindwings expand somewhat near base, then very narrow, with traces of a lobe at three-fourths. The basal fourth is fulvous orange, the rest of the wing dark reddish brown.^[3]

References[]

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Doratopteryx steniptera". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 1, 2018.
^ Afro Moths
^ Hampson G. F. 1920a. On new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae, with the characters of two new families. - Novitates Zoologicae 26(2):253–282. p. 268

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

[2] Afro Moths

[3] Hampson G. F. 1920a. On new genera and species of Lepidoptera Phalaenae, with the characters of two new families. - Novitates Zoologicae 26(2):253–282. p. 268

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