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Chamanthedon leucocera
Chamanthedon leucocera is a moth of the family Sesiidae. It is known from Kenya and Malawi.
The head and thorax are black brown glossed with bronze. The abdomen is orange with a dorsal series of black-brown patches forming dorsal bands on second and fourth segments. The forewings and hindwings are hyaline (glass like) with black-brown veins and margins. The underside of the forewing has a golden-yellow costal area towards the apex and the underside of the hindwing has an orange-yellow costal area to towards the apex, interrupted by a black-brown spot at the upper angle of the cell.
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This page is assembled live from iNaturalist, GBIF, Wikipedia, the Source Library and the Internet Archive. It is not yet part of the hand-edited codex. iNaturalist taxon 1328138.