Hemijana variegata

Hemijana variegata
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Eupterotidae
Genus:	Hemijana
Species:	H. variegata
Binomial name
Hemijana variegata Rothschild, 1917

Hemijana variegata is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. ^[1] It is found in Mozambique. ^[2]

The wingspan about 55 mm. The forewings are cinnamon pinkish white, but the outer one-third umber-brown washed and clouded with pinkish cinnamon and cinnamon-white. There is an arc of three large irregular umber-brown patches on basal one-fourth, as well as several lines and a black stigmatic dot beyond which is a brown patch. The outer one-third of the wing is sharply cut off from the basal paler two-thirds. The hindwings are salmon-pink, the outer one-third with an ill-defined broad sooty grey-black band and suffusion. ^[3]

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Hemijana_auctorum variegata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 25, 2018.
2. Afro Moths
3. Rothschild, W. 1917c. Some new moths of the families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24(3): p. 490 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .