Hendecasis sp. 1
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Cybalomiinae
- Genus: Hendecasis
- Distribution: W. Malaysia, Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland forest & disturbed areas <650m.
- Wing Length: 6.5mm
Taxonomy
Hendecasis sp. 1. A single specimen in the Schulze Coll. near Trichophysetis umbrifusalis Hampson 1912a, from PHS.
The generic concepts represented by Trichophysetis (Meyrick 1884: 287) and Hendecasis Hampson, (1896: 140) are uncertain.
Description
A pale cream sp. with faint curving median and ante-median lines. The median line is partly double. Where the ante median line meets the FW costa there is a black spot and two similar spots mark where the median and antemedian lines reach the anal margin of the HW. Towards the HW tornus there is a dark marginal shading. There are dark spots on the base of the white abdomen. A very similar sp. from GTE is in the HSB-Coll but that is more distinctly lineated. Schulze (2000) taxon #966.
Hendecasis sp. 2 has an extra black spot centrally on the antemedian line.
References
- Meyrick, E. (1884) On the classification of the Australian Pyralidina, Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.: 61-88, 277-350.
- Hampson, G.F. (1896) Moths, Vol. IV, In Blandford, W.T. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, W.T., Taylor and Francis, London: xxiii + 594pp.
- 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: 350 pp.
- Hampson, G.F. (1912a) The moths of India- Supplementary papers to the Volume in the Fauna of British India. Ser.IV, Pt. III-V. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 21: 411-446; 711; 878; 1222-1272.
