Hyalobathra sp. 2
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Tribe: Incertae sedis
- Genus: Hyalobathra
- Distribution: Sabah.
- Habitat: Primary forest canopy and cultivated area, 520-580m.
- Wing Length: 13mm
Taxonomy
Hyalobathra? sp. 2
Three un-named morphotypes from Sabah, (only one spread), encountered in the Schulze Coll. Placement in Hyalobathra provisional.
This could be an Ecpyrrhorrhoe.
Description
A pale fawn brown species with two simple diffuse darker brown lines crossing the FW at the antemedian and postmedian positions and a narrow elongate mark in the discocellular area. The HW is mainly greyish with the veins picked out in brown. The termenal and inner margins of the HW have a narrow brown band proximally darker and with dark cillia on both wings. The head thorax and abdomen are also fawn with a narrow, dark, dorsal neck collar and paler intersegmental bands on the abdomen. Schulze (2000) Taxon #490 ‘Pyraustinae sp. #39’
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References
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.