''Jana'' is a genus of
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 ...
s from
Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 million km2 (11.7 million square miles) including adjacent islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area ...
in the family
Eupterotidae
Eupterotidae is a family of insects in the order Lepidoptera with more than 300 described species.
Diversity
The family consists of four subfamilies and the unplaced ''Ganissa group''. The subfamily Eupterotinae consists of about 11 genera, the ...
. The genus was erected by
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer
Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer (17 December 1799 – 14 April 1874) was a German entomologist and physician. He was born, and died, in Regensburg. Herrich-Schäffer studied and collected particularly butterflies and moths ( Lepidoptera ...
in 1854.
Species
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Jana ampla
''Jana ampla'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Lucien A. Berger in 1980. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
References
Moths described in 1980
Janinae
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Berger, 1980
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Jana anyagudae''
Stoneham, 1966
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Jana aurivilliusi
''Jana aurivilliusi'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Nigeria.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wi ...
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Rothschild, 1917
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Jana basoko''
Berger, 1980
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Jana caesarea
''Jana caesarea'' is a moth of the family Eupterotidae. It can be found in Tanzania.
The body of the male of this species has a length of 51mm, the length of its forewings is 73 mm and its wingspan 134mm..
the forewings are grey-brown, ...
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Weymer, 1909
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Jana demoulini''
Berger, 1980
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Jana dulcinea''
Stoneham, 1966
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Jana eurymas''
Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
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Jana fletcheri''
Berger, 1980
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Jana fontainei''
Berger, 1980
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Jana forbesi
''Jana forbesi'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Lucien A. Berger in 1980. It is found in Orientale Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and in Malawi
Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), of ...
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Berger, 1980
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Jana gaitea
''Jana gaitea'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Stoneham in 1966. It is found in Africa
Africa is the world's second-largest and second-most populous continent, after Asia in both cases. At about 30.3 mill ...
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Stoneham, 1966
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Jana germana''
Rothschild, 1917
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Jana hecqui''
Berger, 1980
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Jana jeanae''
Stoneham, 1966
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Jana kivuensis''
Berger, 1980
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Jana nigrorufa''
Berger, 1980
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Jana overlaeti''
Berger, 1980
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Jana plagiatus''
Berger, 1980
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Jana preciosa''
Aurivillius, 1893
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Jana propinquestria''
Strand, 1911
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Jana pujoli''
Berger, 1980
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Jana roseata
''Jana roseata'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1917. It is found in Burundi
Burundi (, ), officially the Republic of Burundi ( rn, Repuburika y’Uburundi ; Swahili language, Swahili: ''Jamuhuri y ...
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Rothschild, 1917
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Jana rustica''
Strand, 1911
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Jana seydeli
''Jana seydeli'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Lucien A. Berger in 1980. It is found in Katanga Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (french: République démocra ...
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Berger, 1980
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Jana transvaalica''
Strand, 1911
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Jana tripunctata
''Jana tripunctata'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1897 and is found in Malawi
Malawi (; or aláwi Tumbuka: ''Malaŵi''), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landloc ...
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(Aurivillius, 1898)
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Jana vandeschricki''
Berger, 1980
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Jana variegata''
Rothschild, 1917
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Jana viettei''
Berger, 1980
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Jana yokoana
''Jana yokoana'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by George Thomas Bethune-Baker in 1927. It is found in Cameroon.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to t ...
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(Bethune-Baker, 1927)
Former species
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Jana cosima''
Plötz, 1880
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Jana gracilis
''Gracilanja'' is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae erected by Thierry Bouyer in 2011. Its single species, ''Gracilanja gracilis'', was described by Francis Walker in 1855. It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, t ...
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Walker, 1855
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Jana palliatella''
Viette, 1954
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Jana polymorpha''
Aurivillius, 1893
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Jana sciron
''Acrojana sciron'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Druce in 1887. It is found in Cameroon, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Katanga), Equatorial Guinea and Sierra Leone
Sierra Leone,)]. officially the Republic ...
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Druce, 888/small>
*''Jana subrosea
''Hemijana subrosea'' is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Per Olof Christopher Aurivillius in 1893. It is found in Angola and South Africa.
The wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distan ...
'' Aurivillius, 1893
References
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Janinae
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