Cyana puella

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]

Cyana puella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Superfamily: Noctuoidea
Family: Erebidae
Subfamily: Arctiinae
Genus: Cyana
Species:
C. puella
Binomial name
Cyana puella
(Drury, 1773)[1]
Synonyms
  • Phalaena puella Drury, 1773
  • Chionaema puella
  • Chionaema fugax Berio, 1939

Description of male

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

The forewings have one discoidal black spot and the terminal band is not running round the apex.

Biology

The larvae probably feed on lichens. Adults have been recorded in the month of May at Matheran, Maharashtra, India.[5]

Subspecies
  • Cyana puella puella
  • Cyana puella postflavida Rothschild, 1924 (Kenya and Eritrea)

References
  1. 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.
  2. "Cyana puella (Drury, 1773)". African Moths. Archived from the original on 12 September 2016. Retrieved 24 July 2016.
  3. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Cyana puella (Drury, 1773)". Afromoths. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
  4. Hampson, G. F. (1894). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume II. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  5. "Cyana puella". India Biodiversity Portal. Retrieved 24 July 2016.


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