Cydalima sp. 2
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Cydalima
- Distribution: W. Malaysia, Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland primary & disturbed forest & cultivated areas <610m.
- Wing Length: 15.5mm
Taxonomy
Cydalima sp. 2 is unnamed morphotypes nr. Cydalima nigropunctalis Bremmer, 1864, from Sabah, PHS, in the Schulze Coll.
Description
Apart from the pale brown veins the shining white wings are thin scaled and almost transparent and un-marked except for a FW with a narrow brown subcostal area, four small distinct subcostal punctae and a small spot in the discal cell of both wings. It has faint subtermenal inter neural dots also present on the anterior part of the HW. The males have large black and cream anal hair scales. It may represent a var of C. nigropunctalis. Schulze (2000) taxon #933. See Cydalima nigropunctalis
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References
- Bremer, O. (1864) Lepid. Ost-Sib., insbesondere der Amur-Landes, gesammelt von den Herren G. Radde, R. Maack und P. Wulffius. MĂ©m. Acad. Sci. St. PĂ©tersb. (7) 8 (1): 1-104, 8pls. St. Petersberg.
- 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.