Jana eurymas, the banded monkey, is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Gottlieb August Wilhelm Herrich-Schäffer in 1854.[1] It is found in Cameroon, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Guinea, Kenya, Namibia, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Tanzania and Zambia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Jana |
| Species: | J. eurymas
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| Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854
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The larvae feed Canthium species and Psydrax obovata.[3]
References
edit- ^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Jana eurymas". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 26, 2018.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Jana eurymas Herrich-Schäffer, 1854". Afromoths. Retrieved December 1, 2018.
- ^ African Moths
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