Thliptoceras althealis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Thliptoceras
- Distribution: Lowland to submontane forest & disturbed areas; Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia (Sumatra, Sulawesi, W.
- Habitat: Papua) <1500m
- Wing Length: 14mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Salbia althealis Walker, 1859c: 361 is from Sarawak. comb. n. to Thliptoceras Warren, 1890 [in Swinhoe 1890b: 274], Note Munroe uses altheale in his new comb. (Munroe 1967: 723).
Description
An ochreous species with very few markings but not likely to be easily confused. The FW has a series of darker small dots marking a post median fascia. There is a narrow darker brownish termenal line and the pale fringes end greyish. The HW is similar but even less distinctly marked. T. impube (Zhang et al. 2014: 267 (key), 275-276, 285, figs 14, 28, 29, 38, 45) is very similar but has a faint FW stigma and twin termenal lines. See Thliptoceras sinensis Caradja as an example of a golden Thliptoceras.
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References
- Munroe, E. G. (1967) A new species of Thliptoceras from Thailand with notes on generic and species synonymy and placement and designations of lectotypes (Lepidoptera : Pyralidae). Can. Ent. (Ottawa), 99: 722-727.
- Swinhoe, C. (1890b) The Moths of Burma, Pt. 2. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.: 201-296.