Pandemis ianus
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Genus: | Pandemis |
| Species: | P. ianus
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| Binomial name | |
| Pandemis ianus (Diakonoff, 1970)
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Pandemis ianus is a moth of the family Tortricidae. It is found in north Madagascar.[1]
The male of this species has a wingspan of 21.5 mm. Its head is tawny fuscous, palus tawny, the thorax tawny ochreous, abdomen greyish fuscous.
The forewings are suboval with a rounded costa. They are light pinkish ochreous, glossy and strewn with fuscous grey. The hindwings are golden ochreous, the posterior third with a pink suffusion and irregularly transversed by rows of dark grey dots.
The genitalia of this species are close to Pandemis capnobathra. [2]
References
[edit]- ^ afromoths.net
- ^ Diakonoff, 1970, Lepidoptera Tortricoidea from Tsaratanana Range, Mém.Orstom No. 37, p.108-109