Dioptis aeliana

Dioptis aeliana
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Notodontidae
Subfamily: Dioptinae
Tribe: Dioptini
Genus: Dioptis
Species: D. aeliana
Binomial name
Dioptis aeliana
Bates, 1862

Dioptis aeliana is a moth of the family Notodontidae. 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 Brevioleria aelia (the butterfly that led Bates to name the species), Hyposcada illinissa, Napeogenes sylphis, Oleria gunilla and Oleria ilerdina.

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