Lebedodes Hintzi
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''Haberlandia hintzi'' is a
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 ...
in the family Cossidae. It is found in
Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no), is a country in west-central Africa. It is bordered by Nigeria to the west and north; Chad to the northeast; the C ...
. The habitat consists of evergreen coastal rainforests. The
wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 24 mm. The forewings are deep colonial buff with Isabella colour lines from the costal margin towards the dorsum. The hindwings are deep colonial buff with faded lines of Isabella colour., 2011: The description of a new genus and twenty-three new species of Metarbelidae (Lepidoptera:Cossoidea) from the lowland tropical rain forests of the Guineo-Congolian Region with notes on habitats and biogeography. ''Published by the author. Hamburg, 67 pages, 10 b/w plates, 6 colour plates, 1 coloured map'': 1-67. Full article

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References


Natural History Museum Lepidoptera generic names catalog
Endemic fauna of Cameroon Moths described in 1911 Metarbelinae Taxa named by Ingo Lehmann {{Metarbelinae-stub