Dioptis aeliana

Dioptis aeliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Superfamily:	Noctuoidea
Family:	Notodontidae
Genus:	Dioptis
Species:	D. aeliana
Binomial name
	Dioptis aeliana; Bates, 1862

Dioptis aeliana is a moth of the family Notodontidae first described by Henry Walter Bates in 1862. It is found in lowland sites in Amazonian Brazil.

It is the only known Dioptis species in which the hindwings are almost completely ochreous orange. It is part of a mimicry complex with (the butterfly that led Bates to name the species), Hyposcada illinissa, Napeogenes sylphis, Oleria gunilla and .

References[]

Miller, James S. (2009). "Generic revision of the Dioptinae (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea: Notodontidae) Part 1: Dioptini". Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History. 321 (2): 1–676. hdl:2246/5978.

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