Cyana pretoriae

Cyana pretoriae is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1897. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]

Cyana pretoriae
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Cyana
Species:
C. pretoriae
Binomial name
Cyana pretoriae
(Distant, 1897)
Synonyms
  • Bizone pretoriae Distant, 1897

Subspecies

  • Cyana pretoriae pretoriae
  • Cyana pretoriae spectabilis Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
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References

  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 11, 2017.


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