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Dinometa maputuana
Sign in to saveDinometa is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. It was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927, containing at the time only the species Dinometa maputuana, originally described by Wichgraf in 1906 as Gastroplakaeis maputuana. Two additional species, Dinometa abigailae and Dinometa ethani, were described in 2024 by Alexey Prozorov et al.
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- KingdomAnimalia
- PhylumArthropoda
- ClassInsecta
- OrderLepidoptera
- FamilyLasiocampidae
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Dinometa is an Afrotropical genus of moths in the family Lasiocampidae. It was erected by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1927, containing at the time only the species Dinometa maputuana, originally described by Wichgraf in 1906 as Gastroplakaeis maputuana. Two additional species, Dinometa abigailae and Dinometa ethani, were described in 2024 by Alexey Prozorov et al.
==Species== Dinometa abigailae Prozorov et al., 2024 – Kenya, Tanzania Dinometa ethani Prozorov et al., 2024 – Tanzania Dinometa maputuana (Wichgraf, 1906) – Mozambique, South Africa and Tanzania.
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