Syntrita nimalis

Syntrita nimalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Syntrita
Species: S. nimalis
Binomial name
Syntrita nimalis
(Schaus, 1924)
Synonyms
  • Dichocrocis nimalis Schaus, 1924

Syntrita nimalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Schaus in 1924. It is found in Bolivia.[1]

The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are thinly scaled iridescent grey brown, the base darker and with two small spots antemedially in the cell, and with two streaks medially, with whitish shades around them. There is a darker streak on the discocellular, somewhat divided by a whitish line. There is a subterminal broad white line from the costa to vein 5. There is whitish shading terminally, and small brown spots on the interspaces. The hindwings are semihyaline white, the costal margin and the termen broadly greyish brown, crossed by a wavy subterminal white line. There is a terminal white line.[2]

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. New species of moths
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