Cyana saalmuelleri

Cyana saalmuelleri is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1882. It is found on Madagascar.[1]

Cyana saalmuelleri
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Cyana
Species:
C. saalmuelleri
Binomial name
Cyana saalmuelleri
(Butler, 1882)
Synonyms
  • Bizone saalmuelleri Butler, 1882
  • Chionaema pauliani Toulgoët, 1954
  • Chionaema suberythraea Toulgoët, 1971
  • Chionaema saalmuelleri Hampson, 1900

This species is white, with two transversal red lines on the forewings. The wingspan is 48–50 millimetres (1.9–2.0 in).[2]

Subspecies
  • Cyana saalmuelleri saalmuelleri (Butler, 1882)
  • Cyana saalmuelleri pauliani (Toulgoët, 1954)

References
  • Butler. (1882). "Descriptions of new species of Heterocerous Lepidoptera from Madagascar". Cistula Entomologica. 3 (26): 1–27.
  1. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2019). "Cyana saalmuelleri saalmuelleri (Butler, 1882)". Afromoths. Retrieved September 20, 2019.
  2. Hampson, 1900, Catalogue of the Lepidoptera Phalaenae in the British Museum 2: 324, pl. 27, fig 18


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