Tantaliana nigristriata

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Tantaliana nigristriata
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Tantaliana
Species:
T. nigristriata
Binomial name
Tantaliana nigristriata
(Janse, 1915)
Synonyms
  • Jana nigristriataJanse, 1915

Tantaliana nigristriata is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Anthonie Johannes Theodorus Janse in 1915. [1] It is found in South Africa, where it has been recorded from Mpumalanga and KwaZulu-Natal. [2]

The wingspan is about 102 mm. The forewings are light pinkish cinnamon, broadly suffused, especially on the basal and the costal area, with glossy fuscous black. The reniform is distinct, in- and out-wardly confined by a sub-triangular black suffusion. The medial line is fuscous, curved outwards from the costa to vein seven, then straight to vein two, then slightly bent inwards to vein one, then indistinct to the inner margin. The postmedial line is double, fuscous and nearly straight, waved inwards on veins one to nine. The sub-terminal line is less defined and of the ground colour, waved inwards on the veins, curved from the costa to vein five, then nearly straight to the tornus. The space between the postmedial and sub-terminal lines and also beyond the sub-terminal line thickly suffused with fuscous. The hindwings are light pinkish cinnamon with the medial line very indistinct and the subterminal line broad, fuscous and slightly dentate on the inner side, more dentate inwards on the outer side at all the veins. The terminal line is broad, fuscous, slightly dentate outwards on the veins. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Jana nigristriata​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index . Natural History Museum . Retrieved May 28, 2018.
  2. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Tantaliana nigristriata (Janse, 1915)". Afromoths. Retrieved August 14, 2019.
  3. ↑ Annals of the Transvaal Museum. 5 (1): 69. Archived 2015-05-27 at the Wayback Machine PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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