Acrojana splendida

Acrojana splendida is a moth in the Eupterotidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1917.^[1] It is found in Ghana and Sierra Leone.^[2]

The wingspan 110 mm (4.33 in) for males and 133 mm ( 4.45 in) for females. The forewings of the males are sooty slaty brown grey, with a black spot near the base of the costa and a postmedian slanting darker transverse line from the costa to the inner margin and a narrow golden greenish transverse very oblique line edged with brown from before the apex to the postmedial line above vein one. The costal two-fifths of the hindwings is bright rose pink, while the rest of the wing is sooty slaty grey. There is an antemedian darker line from the abdominal margin to a pink area, as well as a median dark line from the costal margin, touching the edge of the pink area, to the abdominal margin.^[3] The forewings of the females are apple-green with an oblique postmedian band, costal region, a large quadrate patch in and beyond the cell, a series of markings in the basal one-fifth of the wing, and patches and cloudings in the apical and outer one-third of the wing purplish mauve-grey. There is a round chocolate subbasal patch on the costa. The costal one-third of the hindwings is bright carmine-rose, while the rest of the wing is apple-green with lines and a cloud of patches purplish maroon-grey.^[4]

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