''Cyana'' is a

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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 ...

s in 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'') ...

. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.

Description

Palpi slender and upturned. Antennae ciliated. Forewing of the male with a more or less strongly developed fringe of hair from the centre of costa on upperside and lobe on underside, which much distorts the sub-costal nervures. Vein 5 absent in male. Vein 6 usually absent in female. Veins 7 to 9 stalked. Hindwing with veins 3 and stalked. Vein 5 above angle of cell and veins 6 and 7 usually stalked. The

pupa A pupa ( la, pupa, "doll"; plural: ''pupae'') is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their ...

e of this genus are typically attached to plant surfaces and surrounded by a characteristic trellis of hairs (see figure). Cocoon with spines

Species

The following are included in ''BioLib.cz'':BioLib.cz: genus ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 (retrieved 4 September 2021)
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Cyana aarviki ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

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Cyana aberrans ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

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Cyana abyssinica ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana adelina'' (Staudinger, 1887) # ''

Cyana adita ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

'' (Moore, 1859) # '' Cyana africana'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana alba'' (Moore, 1878) # '' Cyana alborosea'' (Walker, 1865) # '' Cyana alexi'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana amabilis'' (Moore, 1877) # ''

Cyana amatura ''Cyana amatura'' is a moth of the family Erebidae 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, ...

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Cyana andromeda ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana arama'' (Moore, 1859) # '' Cyana arenbergeri'' Karisch, 2003 # ''

Cyana aroa ''Cyana aroa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904. It is found in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the In ...

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Cyana arorai ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana asticta ''Cyana asticta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1909. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a Sovereign state, sovereign country comprising the mainland ...

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Cyana atlanteia ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana aurifinis ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana aurorae ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana barbora ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana basialba ''Cyana basialba'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1913. It is found in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independ ...

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Cyana basisticta ''Cyana basisticta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1914. It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West ...

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Cyana bella ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana bellissima ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

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Cyana bianca ''Cyana bianca'' is a moth species in the subfamily Arctiinae and tribe Lithosiini. It is found from India to Indochina and consists of a species complex.Volynkin AV, Černý K, Ivanova MS (2018) A review of the ''Cyana bianca'' (Walker, 1856) sp ...

'' (Walker, 1856)Singh N, Volynkin AV, Kirti JS, Datta HS, Ivanova, MS (2020) A review of the genus ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 from India, with descriptions of five new species and three new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). ''Zootaxa'' 4738 (1): 1-93
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Cyana bicolor ''Cyana bicolor'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1913. It is found in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea (abbreviated PNG; , ; tpi, Papua Niugini; ho, Papua Niu Gini), officially the Independe ...

'' (Rothschild, 1913) # '' Cyana bigutta'' (Karisch, 2005) # ''

Cyana boetonensis ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1854. ...

'' (Jurriaanse & Lindemans, 1920) # '' Cyana britomartis'' N. Singh & Volynkin, 2020 # '' Cyana brunnea'' (Bethune-Baker, 1904) # '' Cyana capensis'' (Hampson, 1903) # '' Cyana cara'' Kishida, 1991 # '' Cyana carmina'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana catorhoda'' Hampson, 1897 # '' Cyana cernyi'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana charybdis'' (Bethune-Baker, 1904) # '' Cyana chrysopeleia'' N. Singh et al., 2020 # '' Cyana coccinea'' (Moore, 1878) # '' Cyana conclusa'' (Walker, 1862) # ''

Cyana consequenta ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana cornutissima'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020 # '' Cyana costifimbria'' (Walker, 1862) # ''

Cyana crasizona ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Wileman & West, 1928) # '' Cyana croceizona'' (Hampson, 1914) # ''

Cyana curioi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana delicata'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana determinata'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana detoulgoeti'' Volynkin, 2020 # '' Cyana detrita'' Walker, 1854 - type species # '' Cyana distincta'' (Rothschild, 1912) # '' Cyana dohertyi'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana dryope'' Volynkin & N. Singh, 2020 # '' Cyana dudgeoni'' Hampson, 1895 # '' Cyana effracta'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana ellipsis'' Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010 # '' Cyana ethiopica'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana euryxantha'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana exprimata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana fasciata'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana flammeostrigata ''Cyana flammeostrigata'' is a moth in the family Erebidae. It was described by Timm Karisch in 2003. It is found in Cameroon, Equatorial Guinea, Kenya, Nigeria and Uganda }), is a landlocked country in East Africa East Africa, Eas ...

'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana formosana'' (Hampson, 1909) # '' Cyana fossi'' Volynkin & Ivanova, 2021 # '' Cyana fulvia'' Linnaeus, 1758 # '' Cyana gabriellae'' (Cerny, 1993) # ''

Cyana gelida ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Walker, 1854 # '' Cyana geminipuncta'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana gonypetes'' (Prout, 1919) # ''

Cyana hamata ''Cyana hamata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in Japan, China, Taiwan, Korea and Thailand. The wingspan The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from o ...

'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana hecqi'' (Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010) # '' Cyana heidrunae'' (Hoppe, 2004) # '' Cyana horsfieldi'' Roepke, 1946 # '' Cyana ibabaoae'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana ignifera'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana inconclusa'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana innocua'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana interrogationis'' (Poujade, 1886) # '' Cyana inusitata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) # '' Cyana janinae'' Lourens, 2009 # '' Cyana katanga'' Karisch & Dall’Asta, 2010 # '' Cyana khasiana'' Hampson, 1897 # '' Cyana klausruedigerbecki'' (Karisch, 2005) # '' Cyana klohsi'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana lada'' Volynkin, Černý & Saldaitis, 2019 # '' Cyana leechi'' Volynkin, 2021 # ''

Cyana libulae ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender a ...

'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana linatula'' (Swinhoe, 1891) # ''

Cyana lobata ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana loloana ''Cyana loloana'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Strand in 1912. It is found in Cameroon Cameroon (; french: Cameroun, ff, Kamerun), officially the Republic of Cameroon (french: République du Cameroun, links=no ...

'' (Strand, 1912) # '' Cyana luchoana'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana lunulata'' Semper, 1899 # '' Cyana lutipes'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana luzonica'' (Wileman & South) # '' Cyana magnitrigutta'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana malayensis'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana margarethae'' (Kiriakoff, 1958) # '' Cyana marshalli'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana metamelas'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana meyi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana meyricki'' (Rothschild, 1901) # ''

Cyana miles ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Butler, 1887 # '' Cyana molleri'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana moupinensis'' (Leech, 1899) # '' Cyana natalensis'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana nemasisha'' (Roesler, 1990) # '' Cyana nigroplagata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) # '' Cyana nussi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana nyasica'' (Hampson, 1918) # '' Cyana obliquilineata'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana obscura'' (Hampson, 1900) # ''

Cyana occidentalis ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020 # '' Cyana ochrata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana owadai'' (Kishida, 1991) # '' Cyana pallida'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana pallidilinea ''Cyana pallidilinea'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Timm Karisch in 2003. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocratique du Congo (RDC), ...

'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana paramargarethae'' Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010 # '' Cyana pauliani'' (de Toulgoët, 1954) # '' Cyana pellucida'' (Rothschild, 1936) # '' Cyana peregrina'' (Walker, 1854) # ''

Cyana perornata ''Cyana perornata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in India (Sikkim, Assam) and Sundaland Sundaland (also called Sundaica or the Sundaic region) is a biogeographical region of Sou ...

'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana phycomata'' (Wileman & West, 1928) # '' Cyana pratti'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana pretoriae'' (Distant, 1897) # '' Cyana pudens'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana puella'' (Drury, 1773) # ''

Cyana punctistrigosa ''Cyana punctistrigosa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1913. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu Hiri Motu, also known as Police Motu, Pidgin Motu, or just Hiri, is a language o ...

'' (Rothschild, 1913) # '' Cyana quadrinotata'' (Walker, 1869) # '' Cyana quentini'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana rawlinsi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana rejecta'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana rhodostriata'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana rosabra'' (Wileman, 1925) # '' Cyana rubrifasciata'' (Druce, 1883) # '' Cyana rubrifinis'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana rubristriga'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana rubritermina'' (Bethune-Baker, 1911) # '' Cyana rubriterminalis'' (Strand, 1912 – '' incertae sedis'') # '' Cyana rudloffi'' Volynkin & N. Singh, 2020 # '' Cyana rufeola'' Karisch & Dall’Asta, 2010 # '' Cyana rufifrons'' (Rothschild, 1912) # '' Cyana ruwenzoriana'' (Karisch, 2003) # ''

Cyana rwandana ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana saalmuelleri ''Cyana saalmuelleri'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. It is found on Madagascar Madagascar (; mg, Madagasikara, ), officially the Republic of Madagascar ( mg, Repoblikan'i Madagasikara ...

'' (Butler, 1882) # '' Cyana saulia'' (Swinhoe, 1901) # '' Cyana schaeferi'' (Gaede, 1924 – ''incertae sedis'') # '' Cyana selangorica'' (Hampson, 1903) # ''

Cyana signa ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Walker, 1854) # ''

Cyana soror ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1854. ...

'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana speideli'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana squalida'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana subalba'' (Wileman, 1910) # '' Cyana sublutipes'' (Kishida, 1991) # '' Cyana subornata'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana suessmuthi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana tettigonioides'' (Heylaerts, 1892) # '' Cyana thoracica'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1901) # ''

Cyana titovi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin, Černý & Ivanova, 2019 # '' Cyana togoana'' (Strand, 1912) # '' Cyana torrida'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana transfasciata'' (Rothschild, 1912) # '' Cyana treadawayi'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana trigona'' (Rothschild, 1903) # '' Cyana trigutta'' Walker, 1854 # '' Cyana tripuncta'' (de Toulgoet, 1980) # '' Cyana tripunctata'' Rothschild, 1936 # '' Cyana ueleana'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana unipunctata'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana usambara'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana v-nigrum'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana venusta'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana vespertata'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana watsoni'' Hampson, 1897 # ''

Cyana yao ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020

References

* * 2001: ''The Moths of Borneo'' Part 7 ''Family Arctiidae, subfamily Lithosiinae'' * , 1988: Three new species and some synonymic notes on the Arctiidae from Japan, Taiwan and Philippines. ''Tyô to Ga'' 39 (2): 99-118. Full article

* 2003: Beitrag zur kenntnis der gattung ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 in Afrika (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Atalanta'' 34 (1-2): 167–178. Abstract

* 2005: Eine neue Art aus der ''Cyana amatura'' (Walker, 1863) Artengruppe (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). ''Atalanta'' 36 (1-2): 169–171. * 2005: Eine neue ''Cyana''-Art aus Ostafrika (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). ''Atalanta'' 36 (3/4): 573–574. * , 2010: New species and subspecies of ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae) from the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. ''Journal of Afrotropical Zoology'' 6: 117–127. * 2009: A new species of ''Cyana'' from Northern Luzon (Philippines) belonging to the ''lunulata'' group, with an analysis of differential features and evaluation of elements for group recognition (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). '' Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', N.F. 30 (3): 147–160. * 2011: Six new Philippine species of the genus ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 and a review of the ''geminipuncta''-group, with emphasis on endemic development lines on various islands (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Lithosiinae). '' Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', 32 (1-2): 69–96.

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