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Acrojana
''Acrojana'' is a genus of moths in the family Eupterotidae. Species * '' Acrojana rosacea'' Butler, 1874 * '' Acrojana salmonea'' Rothschild, 1932 * ''Acrojana sciron'' Druce, 1887 * '' Acrojana scutaea'' Strand, 1909 * ''Acrojana simillima'' Rothschild, 1932 * ''Acrojana splendida ''Acrojana splendida'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip t ...'' Rothschild, 1917 References Janinae Bombycoidea genera Taxa named by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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Acrojana Rosacea
''Acrojana rosacea'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1874. It is found in Ghana. References Endemic fauna of Ghana Moths described in 1874 Janinae {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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Acrojana Salmonea
''Acrojana salmonea'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1932. It is found in Nigeria. References Endemic fauna of Nigeria Moths described in 1932 Janinae {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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Acrojana Sciron
''Acrojana sciron'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Druce in 1887. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga), Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Africa. It is bordered by Liberia to the southeast and Guinea surrounds the northern half of the nation. Covering a total area of , Sierra .... The forewings are silky fawn-colour, darkest from the base to about the middle, and at the end of the cell beyond two brown lines, the first straight crossing from the inner margin to near the costal margin, which it does not join, the second curved from the inner margin to the apex, bordered on the outer edge with pale whitish fawn-colour. The hindwings are fawn-colour, broadly shaded with bright orange, from the base to the apex. There are three brown lines crossing the wing below the middle from the inner margin close to the anal ang ...
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Acrojana Scutaea
''Acrojana scutaea'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Strand in 1909. It is found in Cameroon and Kenya. References Moths described in 1909 Janinae {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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Acrojana Simillima
''Acrojana simillima'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1932. It is found in Sierra Leone. The wingspan about 132 mm. Adults are similar to ''Acrojana splendida ''Acrojana splendida'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip t ...'', with a salmon-red area on the hindwings. References Moths described in 1932 Janinae {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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Acrojana Splendida
''Acrojana splendida'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ... 110 mm (4.33 in) for males and 133 mm ( 4.45 in) for females. The forewings of the males are sooty slaty brown grey, with a black spot near the base of the costa and a postmedian slanting darker transverse line from the costa to the inner margin and a narrow golden greenish transverse very oblique line edged with brown from before the apex to the postmedial line above vein one. The costal two-fifths of the hindwings is bright rose pink, while the rest of the wing is sooty slaty grey. There is an antemedian darker line from the abdominal margin to a pink area, as wel ...
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Eupterotidae
Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species. Diversity The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced ''Ganissa group''. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the ''Ganissa group'' about 10 genera, the subfamily Janinae about 16 genera, the subfamily Panacelinae consists of one genus and 3 species and the subfamily Striphnopteryginae of 15 genera. Genera *Subfamily Eupterotinae **Tribe Cotanini Forbes, 1955 ***''Cotana'' ***''Melanergon'' **Tribe Eupterotini ***'' Apha'' ***'' Apona'' ***'' Cyrtojana'' ***'' Dreata'' ***''Eupterote'' ***''Ganisa'' ***'' Janomima'' ***''Lasiomorpha'' ***'' Lichenopteryx'' ***''Marmaroplegma'' ***'' Melanothrix'' ***'' Neopreptos'' ***'' Nisaga'' ***'' Palirisa'' ***'' Pandala'' ***''Parajana'' ***'' Phyllalia'' ***''Poloma'' ***'' Preptos'' ***''Preptothauma'' ***''Pseudoganisa'' ***''Pseudojana'' ***''Teratojana'' ***''Trichophiala'' **Unplaced to tribe ***'' Bantua ...
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Bombycoidea Genera
Bombycoidea is a superfamily of moths. It contains the silk moths, emperor moths, sphinx moths, and relatives. The Lasiocampoidea The Lasiocampidae are a family of moths also known as eggars, tent caterpillars, snout moths (although this also refers to the Pyralidae), or lappet moths. Over 2,000 species occur worldwide, and probably not all have been named or studied. It i ... are close relatives and were historically sometimes merged in this group. After many years of debate and shifting taxonomies, the most recent classifications treat the superfamily as containing 10 constituent families. Their larvae often exhibit horns.''Firefly Encyclopedia of Insects and Spiders'', edited by Christopher O'Toole, , 2002 References Lepidoptera superfamilies Macroheterocera {{Bombycoidea-stub ...
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