Pseudojana perspicuifascia | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Eupterotidae |
Genus: | Pseudojana |
Species: | P. perspicuifascia |
Binomial name | |
Pseudojana perspicuifascia Rothschild, 1917 | |
Pseudojana perspicuifascia is a species of moth of the family Eupterotidae first described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Sundaland and on Nias.
The ground colour of the wings is dark red to purplish red. The forewings marked with a series of transverse, more or less straight fasciae.
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Eoophyla is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae. It was erected by Charles Swinhoe in 1900.
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