Pycnarmon nebulosalis
Pycnarmon nebulosalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Genus: | Pycnarmon |
Species: | P. nebulosalis |
Binomial name | |
Pycnarmon nebulosalis Hampson, 1896 | |
Pycnarmon nebulosalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1896. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
The wingspan is about 18 mm. Adults are white, thickly mottled with brown. The forewings are brown, except for some white specks near the base, a patch in the cell, an apical patch and a spot at the middle of the outer margin. There are traces of a dark waved antemedial line and there is a dark-edged white discocellular spot, as well as a dark waved postmedial line defined by white and bent outwards between veins 7 and 4. There is also a dark marginal line. The hindwings have a white basal area and a fuscous discocellular spot. There is an irregularly waved postmedial line defined by white and with some diffused fuscous on its inner edge and there is a dark marginal line with some dentate white marks on its inner edge.[2]
References
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ The Fauna of British Ceylon and Burma