Cyana puella
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Cyana |
| Species: | C. puella
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Cyana puella is a moth of the family Erebidae.[2] It is found in the north-western Himalayas, Nepal, India (Maharashtra, Bombay, Nilgiris), Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Kenya and Eritrea.[3]
Description of male
[edit]White, although the palpi, antennae, a border to tegulae, a band across thorax and patagia, and a spot on the metathorax are scarlet. The legs are scarlet and white. The abdomen is dorsally tinged with crimson except towards the base. Forewings with scarlet sub-basal band expanding into a streak on costa. There is an ante-medial band with a fine black line on its inner edge and strongly excurved below the costa and a sinuous and incurved postmedial band with a black line on its outer side. There is also a black spot in end of the cell, two on the disco-cellulars, and a short black or scarlet streak beyond the postmedial line below the costa. There is a terminal band running round the apex to the postmedial band. The hindwings are pale crimson.[4]
Description of female
[edit]The forewings have one discoidal black spot and the terminal band is not running round the apex.
Biology
[edit]The larvae probably feed on lichens. Adults have been recorded in the month of May at Matheran, Maharashtra, India.[5]
Subspecies
[edit]- Cyana puella puella
- Cyana puella postflavida Rothschild, 1924 (Kenya and Eritrea)
References
[edit]- ^ Drury, Dru (1837). Westwood, John Obadiah (ed.). Illustrations of Exotic Entomology: Containing Upwards of Six Hundred and Fifty Figures and Descriptions of Foreign Insects, Interspersed With Remarks and Reflections On Their Nature and Properties. London: Henry G. Bohn. doi:10.5962/bhl.title.12137. Retrieved 23 August 2016.
- ^ "Cyana puella (Drury, 1773)". African Moths. Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Cyana puella (Drury, 1773)". Afromoths. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Vol. Moths - Vol. II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
- ^ "Cyana puella". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 24 July 2016.