Eudaemonia argus
Appearance
Eudaemonia argus | |
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in Ghana | |
Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Saturniidae |
Genus: | Eudaemonia |
Species: | E. argus
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Binomial name | |
Eudaemonia argus (Fabricius, 1781)
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Eudaemonia argus is a species of moth in the family Saturniidae. It is found in Africa, in such areas as Cameroon, Congo, DRCongo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone,, and Togo.[1][2] Adults have wings with shades of pinkish to brownish, with several small eyespots on the hindwings; the males have much longer and thinner "tails" on the hindwings than the females.[1]
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