Pandemis ianus
| Pandemis ianus | |
|---|---|
| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Tortricidae |
| Subfamily: | Tortricinae |
| Genus: | Pandemis |
| Species: | P. ianus |
| Binomial name | |
| Pandemis ianus (Diakonoff, 1970) | |
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Pandemis ianus is a moth of the Tortricidae family. It is found in North Madagascar.[1]
The male of this species has a wingspan of 21.5 mm. Its head is tawny-fuscous, palus tawny, the thorax tawny-ochreous, abdomen greyish-fuscous.
The forewings are suboval with a rounded costa. They are light pinkish-ochreous, glossy and strewn with fuscous-grey. The hindwings are golden-ochreous, the posterior third with a pink suffusion and irregularly transversed by rows of darf grey dots.
The genitalia of this species are close to Pandemis capnobathra. [2]
References
- ↑ afromoths.net
- ↑ Diakonoff, 1970, Lepidoptera Tortricoidea from Tsaratanana Range, Mém.Orstom No. 37, p.108-109