''Typhonia animosa'' is a species of

bagworm The Psychidae (bagworm moths, also simply bagworms or bagmoths) are a family of the Lepidoptera (butterflies and moths). The bagworm family is fairly small, with about 1,350 species described. Bagworm species are found globally, with some, su ...

moth first described by

Edward Meyrick Edward Meyrick (25 November 1854 – 31 March 1938) was an English schoolmaster and amateur entomologist. He was an expert on microlepidoptera and some consider him one of the founders of modern microlepidoptera systematics. Life and work Ed ...

in 1913. It is found in

South Africa South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the Southern Africa, southernmost country in Africa. Its Provinces of South Africa, nine provinces are bounded to the south by of coastline that stretches along the Atlantic O ...

. The

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is about 22 mm. The forewings are white, the posterior half of the costa tinged with ochreous yellowish and the costal edge blackish towards the base. The stigmata is moderately large, black and with the plical slightly beyond the first discal. There is a black dot in the middle of the disc between the stigmata, and about twenty small irregularly scattered black dots towards the margins. The hindwings are whitish ochreous.

References

Endemic moths of South Africa Typhonia Moths described in 1913 Moths of Africa Taxa named by Edward Meyrick {{Tineoidea-stub