Pandala is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. Its single species, Pandala dolosa, described by the same author in the same year,[1] is found in Sri Lanka.[2]
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| Genus: | Pandala Walker, 1855
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| Species: | P. dolosa
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| Pandala dolosa Walker, 1855
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Adults are brown, the wings with several darker brown, slightly oblique, zigzag bands.[3] Hindwings have four waved postmedial lines and a curved submarginal line.[4]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Pandala". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
- ^ Savela, Markku. "Pandala Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
- ^ List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 4: 922
- ^ Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Vol. Moths - Vol. I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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