Biology:Drepanojana
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Short description: Genus of insects
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Subfamily: | Janinae |
| Genus: | Drepanojana Aurivillius, 1893 |
| Species: | D. fasciata
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| Drepanojana fasciata Aurivillius, 1893
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Drepanojana is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae.[1] Its single species, Drepanojana fasciata, is found in Ghana, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.[2] Both the genus and species were described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893.[3]
The wingspan is about 40 mm. Both wings are uniform dark umber brown. The forewings, at the costa near the apex in the areas seven and eight, with a creamy spot and with a similar small submarginal dot in the sixth area.[4]
Former species
- Drepanojana citheronia Bryk, 1944 is now Eupterote citheronia (Bryk, 1944).
References
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Drepanojana". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57883.
- ↑ De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Drepanojana fasciata Aurivillius, 1893". http://www.afromoths.net/species_by_code/DREPFASC. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
- ↑ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I. et al., eds (2003). "Drepanojana fasciata". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. https://www.nhm.ac.uk/our-science/data/lepindex/detail/?taxonno=57885.
- ↑ Aurivillius, C. (1915). "New species of African Lasiocampidae and Strichnopterygidae from English collections". Arkiv för Zoologi. 9 (11): 9. via – Biodiversity Heritage Library
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