Ambia iambealis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Musotiminae
- Genus: Ambia
- Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Assam, Meghalaya), Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland primary and disturbed forest & cultivated areas; 460-520m.
- Wing Length: 7mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Oligostigma iambealis Walker, 1859: 950 in the BMNH, is from Meghalaya [Khasi Hills].
- syn. Ambia iambesalis Subs. misspell Hampson (1883: 52).
- Nec. syn. Cymoriza albiflavidalis Warren 1896: 223 (Hampson 1896: 205, fig. 121). TL India Meghalaya Khasi Hills [Khasias].
- Nec. syn. Musotima fulvalis Hampson, 1893: 52, 180, pl. 174, fig. 26 (female). Trichophysetis fulvalis Hampson, 1893 TL Sri Lanka [Ceylon], Nawala-pittia [Nawalapitya] is given as subjective syn in LepIndex & Globiz).
Description
A sp. with a distinctive coarse reticulate looping white patterning on an fulvous base. Schulze (2000) taxon #665; a specimen checked against named specimens in the BMNH.
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References
- Hampson, G. F., 1893. Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepid. Heteroc. coll. B.M.
- Hampson, G.F. (1896) Moths Vol. III, In Blandford, W.T. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, W.T., Taylor and Francis, London: 546pp.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die DiversitÀt von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
- 9. The Macrolepidoptera Heterocera of Ceylon. 182 pp., pl. 157-176. London.
- Walker, F. (1859e [May 10]) List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera, Fourth Series. 19: 890-964.