Hemopsis falsidicalis Walker

Taxonomy

The holotype of Asopia falsidicalis Walker, 1859: 370. Is from Sri Lanka.

• syn. Pyrausta suisharyonalis Strand, 1918: 82-83. TL Taiwan (Chaiyi Co. Suisharyo)
  • Syn n. Shibuya 1928: 33) treated as Pyrausta and as a good sp. in Globiz.
  • H. falsidicalis is treated as Syngamia in LepIndex & Globiz.
  • We treat it as Hemopsis (Kirti & Gill, 1987).

Description

A handsome dark brown species with mainly yellow median fasciae. On the HW they form a yellow band across the middle of the wings. Illustrated in  Wang & Spiedel (2000: 176). The genus Hemopsis contains many undescribed or poorly designated spp. and because of confusion over identitification the distribution of most named spp. need re-assessment. Several specimens have been dNA sequenced and images are on the BOLD taxonomy browser (. See other Hemopsis spp.

References

• Strand, E. (1918) in, H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute: Pyralididae, Subfam. Pyraustinae., Dt. ent. Z., Iris, Dresden, 32, (1/2): 33-91.
• Shibuya, J. (1928). The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae. Rep. Fac. Agric. Hokkaido Univ. 22 (1): 300 pp., pls. 1-9.
• Kirti J. S. & Rose H. S. (1987) Taxonomic status of two north-eastern India species referred to genus Sylepta Hübner with the proposal of a new genus Hemopsis. Entomon 12 (4): 379-383.
• Wang, H-Y & Speidel, W. (2000) Guide Book to Insects in Taiwan (19). Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan: pp 295.
• BOLD see Ratnasingham & Hebert (2007).
• Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P.D.N.(2007) Barcoding - BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (www.barcodinglife.org), Molecular Ecology Notes (Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: 10 pp.
• Walker, F. (1859b) XVII Pyralides, In; Suppl. List Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4. 17: 255-508.