Hemijana subrosea
Appearance
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Scientific classification ![]() | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Hemijana |
Species: | H. subrosea
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Binomial name | |
Hemijana subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893)
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Hemijana subrosea is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893.[1] It is found in Angola and South Africa.[2]
The wingspan about 60 mm. The forewings are cinnamon grey tinged with salmon and with three minute stigmatic dots, as well as three postmedian crenulate dark-grey lines. The fringe and subterminal area are stained with salmon red. The hindwings are salmon scarlet.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Hemijana subrosea". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Hemijana subrosea (Aurivillius, 1893)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 15, 2017.
- ^ Lord Rothschild (1917). "Some New Moths of the Families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae". Novitates Zoologicae. 24.
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