Cirrhochrista disparalis Walker | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Spilomelinae
Tribe: &nbsp; Margaroniini
Genus: &nbsp; Cirrhochrista
Distribution: Indonesia (Sula Is.)Lowland.
Habitat: Primary forest &amp; a variety of biotopes, &lt;250m.
Wing Length: 8mm

Taxonomy

The female holotype of Botys disparalis Walker, 1865 [1866]: 1438-1439) from Indonesia, (Maluku, Sula Is.) is in the Oxford U.M.N.H. The type #1198 was collected by A.R. Wallace.

Description

A primarily brown and white sp. with a distinctive FW patterning where the brown subapical, sub-termenal and basal fasciae delineate a white figure of eight shaped space flanked by apical and basal, white areas. Like Cirrhochrista semibrunea: Hampson, 1896: 918, the abdomen has the two basal segments white laterally, with a slightly broadening dark orange-centred mid-dorsal fascia the remaining segments have nearly all the dorsal fasciae dark. C. semibrunnea has a broad and complete median fascia producing a FW with four white spots unlike this sp.. Cirrhochrista sp 1 has a FW which is very similar but the HW does not have a broad brown subtermenal band just a small brown subtermenal patch like Cirrhochrista semibrunea. Not recorded in Borneo.

Oxford U.M.N.H.; Female holotype, Indonesia, (Maluku, Sula Is.)

References

Walker, F. (1865 [1866 Jan 13]) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533.
Hampson, G. F., (1895 [1896]) On the classification of the Schoenobiinae and Crambinae, two subfamilies of moths of the family Pyralidae. Proc. Zool Soc. London 1895: 5: 897-974.