Paracymoriza vagalis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Acentropinae
- Genus: Paracymoriza
- Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Punjab, Kerala, Tamilnadu, W. Bengal), Nepal, Burma, Thailand, W.Malaysia, Sabah, Brunei, Sarawak, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java), China (Yunnan (S), Hong Kong), Taiwan, Japan.
- Habitat: Lowand to submontane, streams & rivers <1500m
- Wing Length: 11mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Oligostigma vagalis Walker, (1865 [1866 Jan 13]): 1530-1531. T.L. Indonesia, Java.
- syn. Hydrocampa exsolvalis Snellen, 1880: 76.
T.L. Indonesia, Sumatra, Alahan pandjang, Moeara Laboe.
Description
A very common sp. with distinctive markings in brown and white. Speidel (1984) and Yoshiyasu (1985) give full descriptions. There is little variation over its range. The male antennae are slightly swollen, continuously scaled and finely pubescent. The labial palps are drooping with a tuft of long dark brown scales on their second segment. See RTS (1994).
Life History
Yoshiasu (1987: 146) gives the food plant of Paracymoriza spp. in Japan as Podostemaceae. This species was the most common pyralid acting as a pollinator of the flowers of Neonauclea pallida (Rubiaceae) in Thailand (Weber, 2000a, b).
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References
- Walker, F. (1865 [1866 Jan 13]) List Spec Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 34, (Suppl. 4): 1121-1533.
- Snellen, P. C. T., (1880-1892 [1880]). Achtse afdeeling. Lepidoptera door P.C.T. Snellen, met eene inleiding door Joh. F. Snelleman. In: Veth, P.J., (1880-1892). Natuurlijke Historie. Midden-Sumatra. 4 (8): 92 pp., 5 pl. Leiden. [in Dutch]
- Yoshiyasu, Y., (1987) The Nymphulinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae) from Thailand, with descriptions of a new genus and six new species. In Kuroko, H. & Moriuti, S. (eds.) Microlepidoptera of Thailand 1: 133-184.
- [RTS] (1994): 166, pl. 26 fig.14.
- [RTS] Robinson, G.S., Tuck, K.R. & Shaffer, M. (1994) A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia, Malaysian Nature Society Kuala Lumpur & Natural History Museum, London, 311 pp. 51 text figs, 32 pls.
- Weber, C. F. (2000b) Bestäubung von Neonauclea pallida (Rubiaceae) durch Pyraliden in Süd-Thailand. [Pollination of Neonauclea pallida (Rubiacea) by pyralid moths in Southern Thailand]. Linzer biol. Beitr. 32 (2): 247. [in German]
- Weber, C.F. (2000a) Bestäubung von Neonauclea pallida (Rubiaceae) durch Pyraliden in Süd-Thailand. [Pollination of Neonauclea pallida (Rubiaceae) by pyralid moths in Southern Thailand]. Unpubl. M. Phil Thesis, Institut fur Botanik, Universität Wien , Austria. [in German]