Phiala cunina

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Phiala cunina
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Eupterotidae
Genus:
Phiala
Species:
P. cunina
Binomial name
Phiala cunina
(Cramer, 1780)
Synonyms
  • Phalaena Attacus cuninaCramer, 1780
  • Phiala fervidariaFabricius, 1787
  • Stibolepis niveaButler, 1878

Phiala cunina is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. [1] It is found in Cameroon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone. [2]

Moth Group of mostly-nocturnal insects in the order Lepidoptera

Moths comprise a group of insects related to butterflies, belonging to the order Lepidoptera. Most lepidopterans are moths, and there are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of which have yet to be described. Most species of moth are nocturnal, but there are also crepuscular and diurnal species.

Eupterotidae family of insects

Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.

Pieter Cramer Dutch merchant and entomologist (1721–1776)

Pieter Cramer, was a wealthy Dutch merchant in linen and Spanish wool, remembered as an entomologist. Cramer was the director of the Zealand Society, a scientific society located in Flushing, and a member of Concordia et Libertate, based in Amsterdam. This literary and patriotic society, where Cramer gave lectures on minerals, commissioned and/or financed the publishing of his book De uitlandsche Kapellen, on foreign (exotic) butterflies, occurring in three parts of the world Asia, Africa and America.

Adults are snowy white, the wings with black external borders traversed by a deeply dentate-sinuate white line. There is a series of black spots on the forewings, interrupted on the median interspaces, close to the external border. The costal border is crossed by black dashes, the four nearest the base continued as grey and ill-defined stripes across the wing. The hindwings have a subcostal black dash close to the external border. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
  2. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Euchera cunina (Cramer, 1780)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
  3. ↑ Butler, A. G. 1878. "Descriptions of some new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Old Calabar and Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)2(12): 463


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