Analyta apicalis Hampson
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Tribe: Margaroniini
- Genus: Analyta
- Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Himachal Pradesh), Nepal, Sabah, China (Hong Kong, S, W), Taiwan.
- Habitat: Lowland.
- Wing Length: 8mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Leucinodes apicalis Hampson, 1896: 371 is from Sri Lanka. comb. nov. to Analyta (Malley et al. 2015: 148-149)
- syn. Analyta pseudoapicalis (Strand, 1918: 61). syn. nov. (Shibuya, 1928: 30). The TS from Taiwan (Kanshiri, Tainan) is in the MfNH (Berlin). See Wang & Speidel, 2000: 242.
This may be a junior subjective syn. of A. sigulalis (Guenée, 1854). (Shaffer note on LepIndex card) but until that is verified it is treated here as a good sp.
Leucinodella leucostola Hampson, 1896, Analyta apicalis Hampson, 1896 and A. sigulalis Guenée, 1854 are very similar. The A. apicalis group is in need of further revision and we are tentatively treating Leucinodella as Nistra Walker, 1859c.
Description
A delicate sp., mainly white with a few fuscous markings. FW with black tip and basal area. In a. apicalis the HW has a small black spot at the apex in Leucinodella leucostola there is a diffuse black patch.
Life History
A common mangrove sp. in Hong Kong and at lower densities in other woodlands. The exact food plant is unknown.
References
- Guenée, A. (1854) Deltoïdes et pyralites. In Boisduval, J.A. & Guenée, A., Hist. nat. des Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) Vol. 8, 448pp. + 10 pls., Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris.
- Hampson,G.F. (1891) The Lepidoptera Heterocera of the Nilgiri district. Ill. typ. spec. Lepid. Heteroc. coll. B.M., 8. 144 pp., pl. 139-156, London.
- Hampson, G.F. (1896) Moths, Vol. IV, In Blandford, W.T. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, W.T., Taylor and Francis, London: xxiii + 594pp.
- Strand, E. (1918): 61 in H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Pyralididae, Subfam. Pyraustinae., Dt. ent. Z., Iris, Dresden, 22.
- Shibuya, J. (1928). The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae. Rep. Fac. Agric. Hokkaido Univ. 22 (1): 300 pp., pls. 1-9.
- Wang, H-Y & Speidel, W. (2000) Guide Book to Insects in Taiwan (19). Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan: pp 295.
- Mally, R., Korycinska, A., Agassiz, D. J. L., Hall, J., Hodgetts, J. & Nuss, M. (2015) Discovery of an unknown diversity of Leucinodes species damaging Solanaceae fruits in sub-Saharan Africa and moving in trade (Insecta, Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea). ZooKeys 472: 117-162.