Bacotoma poecilura Hering

Taxonomy

The types of Platamonia poecilura Hering, 1903: 42, pl. 1 fig. 29 are in the Mus. Stettin. The male type from Indonesia, (Java, Pengalengan), and a the female from Malaysia, (Kina Balu, Nord-Borneo) [Sabah Mt. Kinabalu].

comb. nov. to Bacotoma Moore, 1885: 282 (Yang et al. 2019: 20),

Description

The shape of the brownish wings is fairly distinctive. The FW patterning is simple  consisting of darker ante-median and post median lines with a couple of spots at either end of the FW cell. The one in the median position is elongate the  othe more proximal is a small punctum. The HW has a post median line which may be looped medially and may have a short median line linking towards it. The colours and patterning of the tip of elongate male abdomen is fairly specific. Yang et al. 2019 (fig. 4) illustrate those of  B. ampliatalis, B. binotalis, B. camillusalis, B. cuprealis, and B. illatalis.  The male and female genitalia of the above spp. and B. hainanensis Yang et al. (2019, Figs. 5 & 7) are also illustrated they also barcoded eight of the more common Bacotoma spp. Unfortunatel because of the absence of suitable material, their extensive review could not extend to B. poecilura.

References

• Hering, E. M. (1903) Neue Pyraliden aus dem Tropischen Faunengebiet, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 64 (1), 97-112.
• Yang, Z., M. Ullah, Landry, J.-F., Miller, S. E., Rosati, M. E. & Zhang, Y. (2019) Reassessment of the moth genus Bacotoma, with a new species from Hainan Island (Lepidoptera: Crambidae: Spilomelinae). Insect Systematics & Evolution, Copenhagen: 1-24. DOI: 10.1163/1876312X-00002205.
• Hering, E. M. (1901b) Eubersicht der Sumatra-Pyralidae, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 62 (6-12): 219-348, pls. 3,4.
• Hering, E. M. (1901a) Eubersicht der Sumatra-Pyralidae, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 62 (1-6): 13-118, pls. 1-2.