Cyana pretoriae is a moth of the family Erebidae. It was described by William Lucas Distant in 1897. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Somalia, South Africa, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe.[1]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Superfamily: | Noctuoidea |
| Family: | Erebidae |
| Subfamily: | Arctiinae |
| Genus: | Cyana |
| Species: | C. pretoriae
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| Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)
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Subspecies
edit- Cyana pretoriae pretoriae
- Cyana pretoriae spectabilis Karisch & Dall'Asta, 2010 (Democratic Republic of the Congo)
References
edit- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Cyana pretoriae (Distant, 1897)". Afromoths. Retrieved December 11, 2017.