Chrysothyridia sp. 1
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Chrysothyridia
- Distribution: Sabah, Sarawak.
- Habitat: Lowland primary and disturbed forest and cultivated areas <630m
- Wing Length: 14mm
Taxonomy
Chrysothyridia sp. 1; Several unnamed morphotypes in the BMNH & Schulze Coll. with FW wing maculation nr. to C. triangulifera Munroe, 1967.
Description
Note the FW apical costal patch is not regularly triangular and is sub-rectangular not unlike Chrysothyridia invertalis Snellen 1876 [1877b]: 78, pl. 6 fig. 4 where it is rectangular. It is unlike any of the Chrysothyridia specimens illustrated by Munroe: 1106: figs 1 & 2. All specimens have a large white central spot with a bifurcating posterior margin also seen in Chrysothyridia sp. 2. As it does not closely coincide with either C. triangulifera or C. invertalis it may represent an undescribed sp. complex or simply variation. Best investicated by genitalic examination and DNA sequencing. Schulze (2000) Taxon #213b.
References
- Snellen, P.C.T. (1876 [1877b]) Lepidoptera op Sumatra verzameld, voornamelijk in Atchin, door J.J. Korndörffer, Kapitein 1ste ld., oud-kommandant van het detachement Mariniers in Atchin, met beschrijving van eenige nieuwe soorten, Tijdschr. v. Ent., 20: 65-79, pls. 5,6.
- Munroe, E. (1967) A new genus and a new species of pyraustinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), Can. Ent. 99 (10): 1104-1110, figs 3,4,6,8.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die DiversitÀt von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 350pp.