(one synonym: Sthenobela niphostibes Turner, 1904) PHYCITINAE, PYRALIDAE, PYRALOIDEA | (donherbisonevans@yahoo.com) and Stella Crossley |
(Photo: courtesy of the Photography Group,
Centre for Biodiversity Genomics,
University of Guelph)
The adult moth of this species has brown forewings, each with a paler costal half and a darker area along hind margin, as well as a dark line along the costa, a dark mark near the middle, and some dark zigzag submarginal markings.
The hindwings are pale brown fading to white at the bases. The moth has a wingspan of about 2.5 cms.
The species occurs in
Further reading :
George F. Hampson,
in Émile Louis Raganot:
Monographie des Phycitinae et des Galleriinae,
in Nicholas Mikhailovitch Romanoff:
Mémoires sur les Lépidoptères,
Paris & Saint Petersberg : Imprimerie Générale Lahiire,
Volume 8 (1901), p. 525, No. 175, and also
Plate 56, fig. 2.
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(written 16 February 2022)