Callibotys monostictalis Hampson | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Pyraustinae
Genus: &nbsp; Callibotys
Distribution: Lowland primary forest.
Habitat: 50m
Wing Length: 7.5mm

Taxonomy

The holotype of Sameodes monostictalis Hampson, 1899: 176. is from Indonesia, Amboina; Papua, Yos Sudarso Bay [Humboldt Bay].

Comb n. to Eusabena (Shaffer et al., 1996: 197).

These non-spotted morphotypes of the Eusabena monostictalis group may be better placed elsewhere. We are temporarily treating it in Callibotys Munroe & Mutuura, 1969: 299.

Description

A distinctive brown and yellow sp.. The central brown patch of the FW with a white spot in the FW cell and another smaller spot basally in the cell. The HW has brown mottlings with traces of purplish on a fulvous background. See Callibotys sp. 1 & sp. 2.

References

Hampson, G. F. (1899) A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and the family Pyralidae. Part 2, Proc. zool. soc. Lond.: 172-291.
Shaffer, M. & Nielsen, E.S. (1996) Thyridoidea (In Nielsen, E.S., Edwards, E.D. & Rangji, R.V. (Eds.) Checklist of the Lepidoptera of Australia: i-xiv, 529pp. CSIRO, Australia.