Europtera Punctillata
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''Europtera punctillata'' is a species of
Lasiocampidae The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths also known as eggars, tent caterpillars, snout moths (although this also refers to the Pyralidae), or lappet moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied. It i ...
moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
native to
Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...
. The wings have a cinnamon-brown colour. The males have a wingspan of 35–43 mm and the females of 62mmY. De Lajonquière, 1970 ''Mémoires ORSTORM No. 37, Lépidoptères Lasiocampidae récoltés dans le Massif du Tsaratanana - Mission dans le Massif du Tsaratanana'', page 169, pl. 14, Fig.2
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Lasiocampidae Lepidoptera of Madagascar Moths described in 1884 Moths of Madagascar Moths of Africa {{Lasiocampidae-stub