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Cyana

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Superfamily
  
Noctuoidea

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Family
  
Erebidae

Cyana

Cyana is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo.

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Description

Palpi slender and upturned. Antennae ciliated. Fore wing of male with a more or less strongly developed fringe of hair from the center of costa on upperside and lobe on underside, which much distorts the sub-costal nervures. Vein 5 absent in male. Vein 6 usually absent in female. Veins 7 to 9 stalked. Hind wing with veins 3 and stalked. Vein 5 above angle of cell and veins 6 and 7 usually stalked.

Selected species

  • Cyana adelina (Staudinger, 1887)
  • Cyana africana (Holland, 1893)
  • Cyana alborosea (Walker, [1865])
  • Cyana amatura (Walker, 1863)
  • Cyana arenbergeri Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana aroa Bethune-Baker, 1904
  • Cyana asticta (Hampson, 1909)
  • Cyana basialba Rothschild, 1913
  • Cyana basisticta (Hampson, 1914)
  • Cyana bicolor Rothschild, 1913
  • Cyana bigutta Karisch, 2005
  • Cyana brunnea Bethune-Baker, 1904
  • Cyana capensis (Hampson, 1903)
  • Cyana catorhoda Hampson, 1897
  • Cyana charybdis Bethune-Baker, 1904
  • Cyana croceizona Hampson, 1914
  • Cyana delicata (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana divakara (Moore, [1866])
  • Cyana ellipsis Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010
  • Cyana effracta (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana flammeostrigata Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana formosana (Hampson, 1909)
  • Cyana fulvia (Linnaeus, 1758)
  • Cyana fumea Hampson, 1900
  • Cyana grandis (Mabille, 1879)
  • Cyana hamata (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana hecqi Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010
  • Cyana heidrunae (Hoppe, 2004)
  • Cyana inusitata Bethune-Baker, 1910
  • Cyana klausruedigerbecki Karisch, 2005
  • Cyana klohsi Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana loloana (Strand, 1912)
  • Cyana luchoana Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana malayensis (Hampson, 1914)
  • Cyana margarethae (Kiriakoff, 1958)
  • Cyana marshalli (Hampson, 1900)
  • Cyana melanoplagia Hampson, 1914
  • Cyana metamelas Hampson, 1914
  • Cyana meyricki (Rothschild, 1901)
  • Cyana mira Röber, 1925
  • Cyana nemasisha Roesler, 1990
  • Cyana nigroplagata Bethune-Baker, 1910
  • Cyana nyasica (Hampson, 1918)
  • Cyana obliquilineata (Hampson, 1900)
  • Cyana obscura (Hampson, 1900)
  • Cyana pallidilinea Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana paramargarethae Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010
  • Cyana pellucida (Rothschild, 1936)
  • Cyana peregrina (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)
  • Cyana propinqua (Wileman, 1910)
  • Cyana puella (Drury, 1773)
  • Cyana punctistrigosa Rothschild, 1913
  • Cyana quadripartita (Wileman, 1910)
  • Cyana quentini Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana rejecta (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana rhodostriata (Hampson, 1914)
  • Cyana rubrifasciata (Druce, 1883)
  • Cyana rubristriga (Holland, 1893)
  • Cyana rubritermina (Bethune-Baker, 1911)
  • Cyana rubriterminalis (Strand, 1912)
  • Cyana rufeola Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010
  • Cyana rufifrons (Rothschild, 1912)
  • Cyana ruwenzoriana Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana saalmuelleri (Butler, 1882)
  • Cyana sanguinea (Bremer & Grey, 1852)
  • Cyana straminea (Hampson, 1914)
  • Cyana subalba (Wileman, 1910)
  • Cyana tegyra Druce, 1899
  • Cyana tegyra postdivisa - Rothschild, 1913
  • Cyana tegyra tegyra - Druce, 1899
  • Cyana togoana (Strand, 1912)
  • Cyana torrida (Holland, 1893)
  • Cyana thoracica Rothschild & Jordan, 1912
  • Cyana transfasciata Rothschild, 1912
  • Cyana tricolora Butler, 1877
  • Cyana trigona Rothschild, 1903
  • Cyana trigutta (Walker, 1854)
  • Cyana tripuncta (de Toulgoët, 1980)
  • Cyana ueleana Karisch, 2003
  • Cyana ugandana (Strand, 1912)
  • References

    Cyana Wikipedia