Phiala cunina is a moth in the family Eupterotidae. It was described by Pieter Cramer in 1780.[1] It is found in Cameroon, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Eupterotidae |
| Genus: | Phiala |
| Species: | P. cunina
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| Phiala cunina (Cramer, 1780)
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Adults are snowy white, the wings with black external borders traversed by a deeply dentate-sinuate white line. There is a series of black spots on the forewings, interrupted on the median interspaces, close to the external border. The costal border is crossed by black dashes, the four nearest the base continued as grey and ill-defined stripes across the wing. The hindwings have a subcostal black dash close to the external border.[3]
References
edit- ^ "Scientific name search". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum, London.
- ^ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2017). "Euchera cunina (Cramer, 1780)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 20, 2017.
- ^ Butler, A. G. 1878. "Descriptions of some new genera and species of Lepidoptera from Old Calabar and Madagascar". Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5)2(12): 463
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