Gonojana crowleyi

Gonojana crowleyi
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Eupterotidae
Genus: Gonojana
Species: G. crowleyi
Binomial name
Gonojana crowleyi
(Aurivillius, 1904)
Synonyms
  • Viana crowleyi Aurivillius, 1904

Gonojana crowleyi is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Aurivillius in 1904.[1] It is found in Kenya, Sierra Leone and Uganda.[2]

The wingspan about 45 mm. The forewings are dark reddish-brown with a fuscous mark on the discocellulars and a nearly straight transverse line behind the middle from the costa near the apex to the hind-margin near the anal angle. The hindwings are ochreous-yellow, tinged with brown at the inner margin and behind the middle with a faintly curved brownish transverse line.[3]

References

  1. ↑ LepIndex
  2. ↑ Afro Moths
  3. ↑ Aurivillius, C. 1904c. New species of African Striphnopterygidae, Notodontidae and Chrysopolomidae in the British Museum. - Transactions of the entomological Society of London 1904(4): p. 699
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