Eoophyla falcatalis Snellen
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Acentropinae
- Genus: Eoophyla
- Distribution: Sabah, Brunei?, Indonesia (Java).
- Habitat: Water bodies in lowland forest; <160m.
- Wing Length: 10mm
Taxonomy
The male lectotype of Oligostigma falcatalis Snellen, [1901] 1900: 287 from Java, Bogor (Buitenzorg) is in Leiden. Lectotype selected by Munroe et al. (1958: 74). Once considered a junior subjective syn. of E. ceratucha (Meyrick, 1894a) but Jaenicke & Mey (2011) re-established it as a good sp. in Eoophyla.
Description
Typical Eoophyla patterning in brown white and yellow. Jaenicke & Mey (2011) give a full description of male and female including illustrations of genitalia (pp. 40-42, pl. 17 figs 1-8, pl. 24 figs 1-2 & pl. 23 figs 7-8). It is very similar to E. profalcatalis Jaenicke & Mey 2011 from Sumatra. However the original habitus illustrations of E. falcatalis & E. profalcatalis (Jaenicke & Mey 2011, pl. 10 figs 1-4) are confused. See other spp. in the E. ceratucha group.
References
- Snellen, P. C. T., ([1901] 1900) Aanteekeningen over Pyraliden., Tijdschr. v. Ent. 43: 265-310, pls 15-17.
- Munroe, E. G., Diakonoff, A. & Martin, E. L. (1958) Catalogue of Snellen's types of Pyralidae, with selections of lectotypes. Tijdschr v. Ent. 101: 65-88.
- Jaenicke, B. & Mey, W. (2011) Revision der Eoophyla ceratucha-Gruppe und ihr Verbreitung in Sudostasian. Beitr. Ent. 61(1): 3-87, 25 figs. [In German].
- Meyrick, E. (1894a) On Pyralidina from the Malay Archipelago. Trans. Ent. Soc. Lond.: 455-480.
