Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897) is a animal in the Erebidae family, order Lepidoptera, kingdom Animalia. Not known to be toxic.

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Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)

Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)

Cyana pretoriae is an Erebidae moth described in 1897, found across multiple countries in eastern and southern Africa.

Family
Genus
Cyana
Order
Lepidoptera
Class
Insecta

About Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)

Cyana pretoriae is a moth species belonging to the family Erebidae. It was first formally described by William Lucas Distant in 1897. This species has been recorded to occur in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.

Photo: (c) Gerhard Diedericks, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC), uploaded by Gerhard Diedericks · cc-by-nc

Taxonomy

Animalia Arthropoda Insecta Lepidoptera Erebidae Cyana

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Sources: GBIF, iNaturalist, Wikipedia, NCBI Taxonomy · Disclaimer

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