Lepidoplaga sp. 5
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Lepidoplaga
- Distribution: Sabah. Mt. Kinabalu N.P.
- Habitat: PHS, Por1.
- Wing Length: 13mm
Taxonomy
Lepidoplaga? sp. 5 is a single specimen in the Schulze Coll. from Sabah (PHS). Allocation to this genus is provisional.
Description
This is a pale purple-fulvous sp. with a purple suffusion extending along the veins of the FW. It somwhat resembles a small arctiid. Superficially similar to Filodes [Rehimena] striolalis Snellen, 1890. (See Hampson, 1896: 261, fig 157.) Schulze (2000) taxon #587.
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References
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1890) A catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim collected by Henry J. Elwes and the late Otto Möller. Trans ent. Soc Lond: 557-647, 2 pl.
- 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, 350pp.