Dasychira thysanoessa Collenette, 1933

FAMILY	Erebidae
SUBFAMILY	Lymantriinae
GENUS	Dasychira
SPECIES	thysanoessa
AUTHOR	Collenette, 1933
ORIGINAL COMBINATION	Dasychira thysanoessa, sp. n.
TYPE LOCALITY	Kenya, Nairobi, vi.1926, leg. T. J. Anderson.
GEOGRAPHICAL COORDINATES	Latitude: -1°17'40" Longitude: 36°49'31"
TYPE SPECIMEN(S)	Holotype ♂, BMNH; Allotype ♀, BMNH; Paratypes 2♂, BMNH.
STATUS	Species
PUBLICATION	Collenette C. L. 1933a. New Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera Heterocera) in the British Museum collection. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 11(61):33-48, pl. 1.
PAGINATION	40-41; pl. 1, fig. 18

Species Distribution

COUNTRY	PROVINCE/STATE	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Kenya		Collenette C. L. 1933a. New Lymantriidae (Lepidoptera Heterocera) in the British Museum collection. - Annals and Magazine of Natural History (10) 11(61):33-48, pl. 1.	41

Host Plants

FAMILY	SPECIES	COUNTRY	PUBLICATION	PAGE
Moraceae	Ficus sp.	East Africa	Sevastopulo D. G. 1975. A list of the food plants of East African Macrolepidoptera. Part 2 - moths (Heterocera). - Bulletin of the Amateur Entomologists' Society 34(309):175-184.	182
Moraceae	Ficus carica	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on the early stages of certain Heterocera. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1936)(3-4):107-131.	116
Moraceae	Ficus sp.	Kenya	Townsend A. L. H. 1937. Miscellaneous notes on the early stages of certain Heterocera. - Journal of the East Africa and Uganda Natural History Society 13 (1936)(3-4):107-131.	116

* Description of the larva in A. L. H. Townsend (1937: 117).