Mabra sp. 2
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Tribe: Incertae sedis
- Genus: Mabra
- Distribution: Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland primary forest and cultivated areas, 460-630m.
- Wing Length: 7.5mm
Taxonomy
Mabra sp. 2 an unnamed series from Sabah in the Schulze Coll. near Mabra daulialis (Warren, 1896 463-464).
Description
A distinctively but a complicated patterned sp. in fawn, fulvous and dark brown, very similar to Mabra daulialis and may be conspecific as it mainly differs in having four not six tornal spots on the HW margin and fewer dark brown diffused areas of scales. Note the six dark scale spots on the HW tornus, one is offset to the anterior. Schulze (2000) taxon #727 ‘Tylostega? sp. 138’.
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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, 350pp.
- Warren, W. (1896h) LXV New species of moths from the Khasia Hills, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17 (99): 452-466.