''Cyana'' is a

genus Genus (; : genera ) is a taxonomic rank above species and below family (taxonomy), family as used in the biological classification of extant taxon, living and fossil organisms as well as Virus classification#ICTV classification, viruses. In bino ...

moth Moths are a group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not Butterfly, butterflies. They were previously classified as suborder Heterocera, but the group is Paraphyly, paraphyletic with respect to butterflies (s ...

s in the family

Erebidae The Erebidae are a family (biology), family of moths in the superfamily Noctuoidea. The family is among the largest families of moths by species count and contains a wide variety of well-known macromoth groups. The family includes the underwin ...

. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854.

Description

Palpi slender and upturned. Antennae ciliated. Forewing of the male with a more or less strongly developed fringe of hair from the centre of costa on upperside and lobe on underside, which much distorts the sub-costal nervures. Vein 5 absent in male. Vein 6 usually absent in female. Veins 7 to 9 stalked. Hindwing with veins 3 and stalked. Vein 5 above angle of cell and veins 6 and 7 usually stalked. The

pupa A pupa (; : pupae) is the life stage of some insects undergoing transformation between immature and mature stages. Insects that go through a pupal stage are holometabolous: they go through four distinct stages in their life cycle, the stages th ...

e of this genus are typically attached to plant surfaces and surrounded by a characteristic trellis of hairs (see figure). Cocoon with spines

Species

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Cyana aarviki ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana aberrans ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

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Cyana abyssinica ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana adelina'' (Staudinger, 1887) # ''

Cyana adita ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Moore, 1859) # '' Cyana africana'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana alba'' (Moore, 1878) # '' Cyana alborosea'' (Walker, 1865) # '' Cyana alexi'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana amabilis'' (Moore, 1877) # ''

Cyana amatura ''Cyana amatura'' is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Francis Walker in 1863. It is found on Madagascar Madagascar, officially the Republic of Madagascar, is an island country that includes the island of Madagascar and n ...

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Cyana andromeda ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana arama'' (Moore, 1859) # '' Cyana arenbergeri'' Karisch, 2003 # ''

Cyana aroa ''Cyana aroa'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1904. It is found in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania ...

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Cyana arorai ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin et al., 2020 # ''

Cyana asticta ''Cyana asticta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1909. It is found in Australia Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country comprising mainland Australia, the mainland of the ...

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Cyana atlanteia ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' N. Singh et al., 2020 # ''

Cyana aurifinis ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Cerny, 1993) # ''

Cyana aurorae ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Lourens, 2011 # ''

Cyana barbora ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin & Saldaitis, 2020 # ''

Cyana basialba ''Cyana basialba'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1913. It is found in Papua New Guinea Papua New Guinea, officially the Independent State of Papua New Guinea, is an island country in Oceania that ...

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Cyana basisticta ''Cyana basisticta'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1914. It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone Sierra Leone, officially the Republic of Sierra Leone, is a country on the southwest coast of West Afri ...

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Cyana bella ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Kishida, 1991 # ''

Cyana bellissima ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Moore, 1878) # ''

Cyana bianca ''Cyana bianca'' is a moth species in the subfamily Arctiinae and tribe Lithosiini. It is found from India to Indochina and consists of a species complex In biology, a species complex is a group of closely related organisms that are so simila ...

'' (Walker, 1856)Singh N, Volynkin AV, Kirti JS, Datta HS, Ivanova, MS (2020) A review of the genus ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 from India, with descriptions of five new species and three new subspecies (Lepidoptera: Erebidae: Arctiinae: Lithosiini). ''Zootaxa'' 4738 (1): 1-93
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/ref> # '' Cyana bicolor'' (Rothschild, 1913) # '' Cyana bigutta'' (Karisch, 2005) # '' Cyana boetonensis'' (Jurriaanse & Lindemans, 1920) # '' Cyana britomartis'' N. Singh & Volynkin, 2020 # '' Cyana brunnea'' (Bethune-Baker, 1904) # '' Cyana capensis'' (Hampson, 1903) # '' Cyana cara'' Kishida, 1991 # '' Cyana carmina'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana catorhoda'' Hampson, 1897 # ''

Cyana cernyi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana charybdis'' (Bethune-Baker, 1904) # '' Cyana chrysopeleia'' N. Singh et al., 2020 # '' Cyana coccinea'' (Moore, 1878) # '' Cyana conclusa'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana consequenta'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana cornutissima'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020 # '' Cyana costifimbria'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana crasizona'' (Wileman & West, 1928) # '' Cyana croceizona'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana curioi'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana delicata'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana determinata'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana detoulgoeti'' Volynkin, 2020 # '' Cyana detrita'' Walker, 1854 - type species # '' Cyana distincta'' (Rothschild, 1912) # ''

Cyana divakara ''Cyana divakara'' is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Frederic Moore in 1866. It is found in India (including Sikkim Sikkim ( ; ) is a States and union territories of India, state in northeastern India. It bord ...

'' (Moore, 1866) # '' Cyana dohertyi'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana dryope'' Volynkin & N. Singh, 2020 # '' Cyana dudgeoni'' Hampson, 1895 # '' Cyana effracta'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana ellipsis'' Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010 # '' Cyana ethiopica'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana euryxantha'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana exprimata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana fasciata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana flammeostrigata'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana formosana'' (Hampson, 1909) # ''

Cyana fossi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin & Ivanova, 2021 # '' Cyana fulvia'' Linnaeus, 1758 # '' Cyana gabriellae'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana gelida'' Walker, 1854 # '' Cyana geminipuncta'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana gonypetes'' (Prout, 1919) # ''

Cyana griseilinea ''Cyana griseilinea'' is a moth of the subfamily Arctiinae. It is found in Vietnam Vietnam, officially the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV), is a country at the eastern edge of mainland Southeast Asia, with an area of about and a po ...

'' (de Joannis Joannis, 1930) # '' Cyana hamata'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana hecqi'' (Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010) # '' Cyana heidrunae'' (Hoppe, 2004) # ''

Cyana horsfieldi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Roepke, 1946 # '' Cyana ibabaoae'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana ignifera'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana inconclusa'' (Walker, 1862) # '' Cyana innocua'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana interrogationis'' (Poujade, 1886) # '' Cyana inusitata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) # '' Cyana janinae'' Lourens, 2009 # ''

Cyana katanga ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Karisch & Dall’Asta, 2010 # '' Cyana khasiana'' Hampson, 1897 # '' Cyana klausruedigerbecki'' (Karisch, 2005) # '' Cyana klohsi'' Karisch, 2003 # ''

Cyana lada ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin, Černý & Saldaitis, 2019 # ''

Cyana leechi ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' Volynkin, 2021 # '' Cyana libulae'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana linatula'' (Swinhoe, 1891) # '' Cyana lobata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana loloana'' (Strand, 1912) # '' Cyana luchoana'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana lunulata'' Semper, 1899 # '' Cyana lutipes'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana luzonica'' (Wileman & South) # '' Cyana magnitrigutta'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana malayensis'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana margarethae'' (Kiriakoff, 1958) # '' Cyana marshalli'' (Hampson, 1900) # ''

Cyana melanoplagia ''Cyana melanoplagia'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1914. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of islands ...

'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana metamelas'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana meyi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana meyricki'' (Rothschild, 1901) # '' Cyana miles'' Butler, 1887 # '' Cyana molleri'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana moupinensis'' (Leech, 1899) # '' Cyana natalensis'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana nemasisha'' (Roesler, 1990) # '' Cyana nigroplagata'' (Bethune-Baker, 1910) # '' Cyana nussi'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana nyasica'' (Hampson, 1918) # '' Cyana obliquilineata'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana obscura'' (Hampson, 1900) # '' Cyana occidentalis'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020 # '' Cyana ochrata'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana owadai'' (Kishida, 1991) # '' Cyana pallida'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana pallidilinea'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana paramargarethae'' Karisch & Dall'asta, 2010 # '' Cyana pauliani'' (de Toulgoët, 1954) # '' Cyana pellucida'' (Rothschild, 1936) # '' Cyana peregrina'' (Walker, 1854) # ''

Cyana perornata ''Cyana perornata'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Francis Walker (entomologist), Francis Walker in 1854. It is found in India (Sikkim, Assam) and Sundaland. The habitat consists of lowland forests, extending more weakly int ...

'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana phycomata'' (Wileman & West, 1928) # '' Cyana pratti'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana pretoriae'' (Distant, 1897) # '' Cyana pudens'' (Walker, 1862) # ''

Cyana puella ''Cyana puella'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the north-western Himalayas, Nepal, India (Maharashtra, Bombay, Nilgiris), Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Kenya and Eritrea Eritrea, officially the State of Eritrea, is a country in ...

'' (Drury, 1773) # '' Cyana punctistrigosa'' (Rothschild, 1913) # '' Cyana quadrinotata'' (Walker, 1869) # '' Cyana quentini'' Karisch, 2003 # '' Cyana rawlinsi'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana balls ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana rhodostriata'' (Hampson, 1914) # '' Cyana rosabra'' (Wileman, 1925) # '' Cyana rubrifasciata'' (Druce, 1883) # '' Cyana rubrifinis'' Lourens, 2011 # '' Cyana rubristriga'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana rubritermina'' (Bethune-Baker, 1911) # '' Cyana rubriterminalis'' (Strand, 1912 – ''

incertae sedis or is a term used for a taxonomy (biology), taxonomic group where its broader relationships are unknown or undefined. Alternatively, such groups are frequently referred to as "enigmatic taxa". In the system of open nomenclature, uncertainty ...

'') # '' Cyana rudloffi'' Volynkin & N. Singh, 2020 # '' Cyana rufeola'' Karisch & Dall’Asta, 2010 # '' Cyana rufifrons'' (Rothschild, 1912) # '' Cyana ruwenzoriana'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana rwandana'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana saalmuelleri'' (Butler, 1882) # '' Cyana saulia'' (Swinhoe, 1901) # '' Cyana schaeferi'' (Gaede, 1924 – ''incertae sedis'') # '' Cyana selangorica'' (Hampson, 1903) # '' Cyana signa'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana soror'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana speideli'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana squalida'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana subalba'' (Wileman, 1910) # '' Cyana sublutipes'' (Kishida, 1991) # '' Cyana subornata'' (Walker, 1854) # '' Cyana suessmuthi'' Karisch, 2013 # ''

Cyana tettigonioides ''Cyana'' is a genus of moths in the family Erebidae. Species are well distributed in Africa, Madagascar, China, India, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, Sumatra, Java and Borneo. The genus was erected by Francis Walker in 1854. Description Palpi slender an ...

'' (Heylaerts, 1892) # '' Cyana thoracica'' (Rothschild & Jordan, 1901) # '' Cyana titovi'' Volynkin, Černý & Ivanova, 2019 # '' Cyana togoana'' (Strand, 1912) # '' Cyana torrida'' (Holland, 1893) # '' Cyana transfasciata'' (Rothschild, 1912) # '' Cyana treadawayi'' (Cerny, 1993) # ''

Cyana trigona ''Cyana trigona'' is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by Walter Rothschild in 1903. It is found in New Guinea New Guinea (; Hiri Motu: ''Niu Gini''; , fossilized , also known as Papua or historically ) is the List of island ...

'' (Rothschild, 1903) # '' Cyana trigutta'' Walker, 1854 # '' Cyana tripuncta'' (de Toulgoet, 1980) # '' Cyana tripunctata'' Rothschild, 1936 # '' Cyana ueleana'' (Karisch, 2003) # '' Cyana unipunctata'' (Elwes, 1890) # '' Cyana usambara'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana v-nigrum'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana venusta'' Karisch, 2013 # '' Cyana vespertata'' (Cerny, 1993) # '' Cyana watsoni'' Hampson, 1897 # '' Cyana yao'' Volynkin & Lázló, 2020

References

* * 2001: ''The Moths of Borneo'' Part 7 ''Family Arctiidae, subfamily Lithosiinae'' * , 1988: Three new species and some synonymic notes on the Arctiidae from Japan, Taiwan and Philippines. ''Tyô to Ga'' 39 (2): 99-118. Full article

* 2003: Beitrag zur kenntnis der gattung ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 in Afrika (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae). ''Atalanta'' 34 (1-2): 167–178. Abstract

* 2005: Eine neue Art aus der ''Cyana amatura'' (Walker, 1863) Artengruppe (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). ''Atalanta'' 36 (1-2): 169–171. * 2005: Eine neue ''Cyana''-Art aus Ostafrika (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). ''Atalanta'' 36 (3/4): 573–574. * , 2010: New species and subspecies of ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae) from the collection of the Royal Museum for Central Africa. ''Journal of Afrotropical Zoology'' 6: 117–127. * 2009: A new species of ''Cyana'' from Northern Luzon (Philippines) belonging to the ''lunulata'' group, with an analysis of differential features and evaluation of elements for group recognition (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae: Lithosiinae). '' Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', N.F. 30 (3): 147–160. * 2011: Six new Philippine species of the genus ''Cyana'' Walker, 1854 and a review of the ''geminipuncta''-group, with emphasis on endemic development lines on various islands (Lepidoptera: Arctiidae, Lithosiinae). '' Nachrichten des Entomologischen Vereins Apollo'', 32 (1-2): 69–96.

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