Bradina sp. 6
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Bradina
- Distribution: Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland to Upper montane forest; mangroves & lowland primary forest <1780m
- Wing Length: 13-14.5mm
Taxonomy
Bradina sp. 6. Specimens from Sabah in the Schulze Coll. Generic placement uncertain. It may be a Hymenoptychis sp. (Zeller, 1852: 64).
Description
A unmarked dark sooty brown-black sp., some with a coppery sheen. The underside is similar. The tip of extremely elongate brown abdomen of the male has a small pale scale tuft. Many putative Bradina remipes Hampson,1896 are like this, but the HW lacks the pale costal area seen in the male type of B. remipes.The sp. appears fairly common if all the similar specimens are conspecific and the males and females are correctly associated.
Schulze (2000) Taxa #292; #293 #294 & #487, as ‘Coptobasis spp.’
The illustrated male specimen was caught in a Malaise trap.
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References
- Zeller, P.C. (1852) Lepidoptera Microptera quae J. A. Wahlberg in Caffrorum terra legit, Stockholm: P. A. Norstedt & Söner. 120 pp.
- Hampson, G.F. (1897b) On the classification of two subfamilies of moths of the Family Pyralidae; the Hydrocampinae and Scoparianae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1897 (7): 127-240.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 350pp.
