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Jana aurivilliusi

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Eupterotidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Jana

Jana aurivilliusi is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Nigeria.

The wingspan is about 182 mm. The forewings are buffish wood-brown much powdered with black and with a pale buff stigma between which and the base are two irregular incomplete black bands. There are also median, postmedian and subterminal zigzag double black bands. The hindwings are less powdered with black than the forewing and have a large intensely black subbasal patch and antemedian, two postmedian and subterminal crenulate broad black bands.

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Jana aurivilliusi Wikipedia