''Cyana amatura'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

of the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwings ('' Catocala'') ...

first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found on

Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara, links=no, ; french: République de Madagascar), is an island country in the Indian Ocean, approximately off the coast of East Africa ...

. This species is pure white, its wingspan is .Hampson, 1900, ''Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum'' 2: 323/324
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References

*Walker (1862). "Characters of undescribed Lepidoptera in the collection of W. W. Saunders, Esq." ''Transactions of the Entomological Society of London''. (3) 1: 70–128.

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