Chabula telphusalis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Chabula
- Distribution: India (Assam, Sikkim), Burma, W.Malaysia, Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak, Kalimantan Berat, Kalimantan Selatan,, Amboina, Irian Jaya, PNG, Solomon Is., Australia.Saleyer, Sulawesi, Philippines, Taiwan, Japan.
- Habitat: Lowland forest primary, secondary forest and cultivated areas <650m.
- Wing Length: 10mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Glyphodes telphusalis Walker, 1859: 974-975 from Sarawak is in the Oxford. U.M.N.H. The partly unspread male holotype, type #1000, was collected by A.R. Wallace.
- syn. Bocchoris albilunalis Wileman, 1911: 381, pl. 31, fig 12. T.L. Japan, Yoshino. Syn. n. (Shibuya 1928: 31);
- syn. Bocchoris fazanalis Swinhoe 1906: 288. T.L. India (Khasia Hills). As syn. in LepIndex & Globiz.
- syn. Heterocnephes reniferalis Snellen, 1890b: 616-617) T.L. Sikkim. Syn. n. (Hampson 1898: 248). The male type is in R.M.N.H. Leiden;
- syn. Glyphodes uncinalis Pagenstecher 1884: 273. Syn. n. (Shibuya 1927: 98). TL Indonesia, Maluku Islands, Ambon Island [Amboina];
- syn. Heterocnephes vicinalis Snellen, 1899 [1900]: 70, 74, as a ssp. [orig. a ssp. of reniferalis Snellen 1890b] (infra specific).
Description
This purple-grey, back and white sp. is readily identified by its FW patterning, with a narrow white band antemedianally and a large ‘B’ shaped white patch at the post median position. A specimen has been DNA barcoded [BOLD taxon #19537] Sample ID: Pyr000788 (Ratnasingham & Hebert 2007).
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References
- Pagenstecher, A. (1884) Beitrage zur Lepidoptera-fauna von Amboina, Jb. Nassau. Ver. Naturk. 37: 150-326.
- Hampson, G. (1898) A revision of the moths of the subfamily Pyraustinae and the family Pyralidae. Part 1, Proc. zool. soc. Lond.: 590-760
- Snellen, P.C.T. (1899 [1900]) Nieuwe aanteekeningen over Pyraliden Tijdschr. v. Ent., 42 : 58-114, pls. 3 & 4.
- Swinhoe, C. (1906) LIX New and little known species of Heterocera from the East, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. (Ser. 7) 16 (108): 403-416.
- Wileman, A. E. (1911) XV New and unrecorded species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan, Tr. Roy. Ent. Soc. 59 (2): 189-407, pls. 30, 31.
- Shibuya, J. (1927) Some new and unrecorded species of Pyralidae from Corea. Insecta Matsumurana, 2 (2): 87-102.
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P.D.N.(2007) Barcoding - BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (www.barcodinglife.org), Molecular Ecology Notes (Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: 10 pp.
- Walker, F. (1859e) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 19: 799-1036.
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1890b) XVIII A catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim collected by Henry J. Elwes and the late Otto Möller. Trans ent. Soc Lond: 557-647, 2 pl. (XIX & XX).
