Doratopteryx plumigera

Doratopteryx plumigera is a moth in the Himantopteridae family. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1888.^[1] It is found in South Africa and Tanzania.^[2]

Doratopteryx plumigera
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Himantopteridae
Genus:	Doratopteryx
Species:	D. plumigera
Binomial name
Doratopteryx plumigera Butler, 1888

The wingspan is 13–20 mm. The forewings are semitransparent fuliginous grey with the discoidal cell and interno-basal half golden fulvous. The veins are black. The hindwings are golden fulvous to the commencement of the tail, the latter blackish, crossed by a belt of ochreous at the commencement of its expansion, which is beyond the middle. The head and thorax are shining pitch-brown and the collar and two spots on the prothorax orange. The abdomen is dull orange and the legs are brown.^[3]