Cirrhochrista kosemponialis Strand

Taxonomy

The paratype of Cirrhochrista kosemponialis Strand, [1919 July] 1918: 264 from Taiwan (Kosempo) is in the BMNH.

• syn. C. kosemponalis Wang, 1980: 59. Subs. mispell
  • syn. Cirrhochrista bifurcalis Hampson 1919 [Nov.]: 325 TL India [Mehalaya] Khasis. The male type is also in the BMNH. Syn. n. (Shibuya, 1928: 7).

Inoue 1982 (Moths of Japan) considered C. kosemponialis Strand, a syn. of C. bracteolalis Hampson, but Yuato in Inoue 1987 reinstated it as a good sp. (Yuato. 1987 108: 44).

Description

The FW is mainly a pale yellowish in most specimens. It is traversed by three brownish fasciae (typical of most Cirrhochrista spp.); basal, median and sub-apical. These widen to the costa where they can form triangular, fulvous, subcostal marks. The brown lines are studded with golden scales. The median line bifurcates posteriorally and one branch goes to the tornus joining a brown termenal line. The FW fringes are fulvous spotted with brown. The silky HW is a plain white or cream colour with pale fringes. Note the long palpi. The FW of Cirrhochrista mnesidora Meyrick 1894: 475 has a yellow-brown basal area and a yellow-brown patch where the median line bifurcates.

References

• Meyrick, E. (1894) XVIII On Pyralidina from the Malay Archipelago. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond. 1894: 455-480.
• Strand, E. ([1919 July] 1918) H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute Pyralidae, Subfam. Galleriinae, Schoenobiinae, Anerastiinae und Phycitinae. Stettin ent. Ztg, 79 (1) : 248-276.
• Shibuya, J. (1928). The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae. Rep. Fac. Agric. Hokkaido Univ. 22 (1): 300 pp., pls. 1-9.
• Wang, P. Y., (1980) Lepidoptera: Pyralidae. Economic insect fauna of China. Suppl. 21: i-xii, 1-229.
• Inoue, H., Sugi, S., Kuroko, H., Moriuti, S. & Kawabe, A. (1982) Moths of Japan. 2 Vols. Kodansha, Tokyo. [in Japanese]
• Hampson, G.F. (1919f [Nov.]) XXXI Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the Subfamilies Crambinae & Signae, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser 9, 4, (23): 305-326.