Olapa tavetensis
Species of moth
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Olapa tavetensis is a species of moth in the family Erebidae that was first described by William Jacob Holland in 1892.[1]
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Scientific classification  | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Clade: | Pancrustacea |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Genus: | Olapa |
| Species: | O. tavetensis |
| Binomial name | |
| Olapa tavetensis (Holland, 1892) | |
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Distribution
It is found in sub-Saharan Africa (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]
