Acrojana splendida
| Acrojana splendida | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Acrojana |
| Species: | A. splendida
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| Binomial name | |
| Acrojana splendida Rothschild, 1917
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Acrojana splendida is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917.[1] It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone.[2]
The wingspan 110 mm (4.33 in) for males and 133 mm ( 4.45 in) for females. The forewings of the males are sooty slaty brown grey, with a black spot near the base of the costa and a postmedian slanting darker transverse line from the costa to the inner margin and a narrow golden greenish transverse very oblique line edged with brown from before the apex to the postmedial line above vein one. The costal two-fifths of the hindwings is bright rose pink, while the rest of the wing is sooty slaty grey. There is an antemedian darker line from the abdominal margin to a pink area, as well as a median dark line from the costal margin, touching the edge of the pink area, to the abdominal margin.[3] The forewings of the females are apple-green with an oblique postmedian band, costal region, a large quadrate patch in and beyond the cell, a series of markings in the basal one-fifth of the wing, and patches and cloudings in the apical and outer one-third of the wing purplish mauve-grey. There is a round chocolate subbasal patch on the costa. The costal one-third of the hindwings is bright carmine-rose, while the rest of the wing is apple-green with lines and a cloud of patches purplish maroon-grey.[4]
References[edit]
- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Acrojana splendida". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ Afro Moths
- ^ Rothschild, W. 1932. On some new Eupterotidae. - Novitates Zoologicae 38(2): p. 251
- ^ Rothschild, W. 1917c. Some new moths of the families Arctiidae and Eupterotidae. - Novitates Zoologicae 24(3): p. 492
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