Eoophyla becki Mey | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Acentropinae
Genus: &nbsp; Eoophyla
Distribution: Sabah. Fast flowing streams.
Habitat: Lower montane; 1,000-1,500m.
Wing Length: 15.5mm

Taxonomy

The holotype of Eoophyla becki Mey 2009: 102, 103, Fig. 25S is from Sabah, (Mt. Kinabalu NP, Park HQ, Liwagu River) is in the MfNH, Berlin. Two specimens from Sabah, also from Mt. Kinabalu, are in the FRC (Sabah, Sepilok).

Description

This sp. has a pale ochreous wing colour and a FW with distinctive sigmoid dark brown post median fascia and two small eyespots on the slightly falcate HW. The specimens illustrated are very much larger than a similar specimen from Sabah, Kundasang, Mile 36, seen in the FRC Sepilok Coll., which had a FW length of 10.5mm.

References

Mey, W. (2009) New aquatic moths from high elevations of Mt. Kinabalu in northern Borneo (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Acentropinae). Ent. Zeitschr., Stuttgart, 119 (3): 99-107.