Olapa tavetensis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by William Jacob Holland in 1892.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Olapa |
| Species: | O. tavetensis
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| Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)
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Distribution
editIt 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]
References
edit- ^ Savela, Markku (August 31, 2017). "Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892)". Afromoths. Retrieved March 26, 2020.
- ^ Holland, W. J. (1892). "Descriptions of some new species of African Lepidoptera". The Entomologist. 25 (supplement): 89–95.
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