Pandemis ianus

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Pandemis ianus
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Tortricidae
Genus: Pandemis
Species:
P. ianus
Binomial name
Pandemis ianus
(Diakonoff, 1970)
Synonyms
  • Parapandemis ianusDiakonoff, 1970

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]

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References

  1. afromoths.net
  2. Diakonoff, 1970, Lepidoptera Tortricoidea from Tsaratanana Range, Mém.Orstom No. 37, p.108-109