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Pandala is a monotypic moth genus in the family Eupterotidae described by Francis Walker in 1855. Its single species, Pandala dolosa, described by the same author in the same year, is found in Sri Lanka.

Adults are brown, the wings with several darker brown, slightly oblique, zigzag bands. Hindwings have four waved postmedial lines and a curved submarginal line.

References

1. Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "​Pandala​". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved May 18, 2018.
2. Savela, Markku. "Pandala Walker, 1855". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved November 19, 2018.
3. List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum 4: 922
4. Hampson, G. F. (1892). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume I. Vol. Moths - Vol. I. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.

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