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]
| Afrocelestis evertata | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tineidae |
| Genus: | Afrocelestis |
| Species: | A. evertata
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| Binomial name | |
| Afrocelestis evertata Gozmány, 1965
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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).
References edit
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. 2016. Afromoths, online database of Afrotropical moth species (Lepidoptera). World Wide Web electronic publication (www.afromoths.net) (accessed 29 March 2017)
- ^ Gozmány, 1965. Four new Tineid Genera from Central Africa. - Lambillionea 64(1–4):2–8.
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