Toosa Batesi
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''Toosa batesi'' 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
Thyrididae The Thyrididae comprise the family of picture-winged leaf moths. They are the only family in the superfamily Thyridoidea, which sometimes has been included in the Pyraloidea, but this isn't supported by cladistic analysis. Most species live in t ...
. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1927. 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
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 40 mm. Both wings are dark lustrous metallic green without any markings.Bethune-Baker, G. T. (1927)
"Descriptions of new Heterocera from Africa and the East"
''Annals and Magazine of Natural History''. (9) 20: 321–334.


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Endemic fauna of Cameroon Moths described in 1927 Thyrididae {{Thyrididae-stub