Dasychira colini
| Dasychira colini | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Lymantriidae |
| Genus: | Dasychira |
| Species: | D. colini |
| Binomial name | |
| Dasychira colini (Mabille, 1893) | |
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Dasychira colini is a species of moth of the Lymantriidae family. It is known from Madagascar and Senegal.[1]
The female has a wingspan of 52 mm. The wings are of pur and uniform white colour. Body is snow-white, back of rings in palish yellow. Mabille named this species after the director of the Royal Observatory of Madagascar, R.P.E. Colin.[2]