''Cyclidia fractifasciata'' is a

moth Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...

in the family

Drepanidae The Drepanidae are a family of moths with about 660 species described worldwide. They are generally divided in three subfamilies) which share the same type of hearing organ. Thyatirinae, previously often placed in their own family, bear a super ...

. It was described by

John Henry Leech John Henry Leech (5 December 1862 – 29 December 1900) was an English entomologist who specialised in Lepidoptera and Coleoptera. His collections from China, Japan, and Kashmir are in the Natural History Museum, London. These also contain inse ...

in 1898. It is found in

China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...

. The species can be distinguished by the following characteristics: a black broad subbasal line is present on the forewing, the forewing medial line is broad at the anterior half and very narrow and dot like at posterior half. The outer margin of the forewing medial line forms an almost right angle below M3.A review of Cyclidiinae from China (Lepidoptera, Drepanidae)

Subspecies

*''Cyclidia fractifasciata fractifasciata'' (China: Yunnan) *''Cyclidia fractifasciata indistincta'' Jiang, Han & Xue, 2016 (China: Gansu, Chongqing)

References

Moths described in 1898 Cyclidiinae {{Drepanidae-stub