Acropentias sp. 3 | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Lathrotelinae
Genus: &nbsp; Acropentias
Distribution: Sabah.
Habitat: Submontane primary &amp; disturbed forest &lt;1500m.
Wing Length: 8mm

Taxonomy

Acropentias sp. 3. An unnamed specimen in the Sabah Parks Coll. from Sabah (Mt Kinabalu N.P., Park HQ).

Near Acropentias aureus (Butler 1878: 402). It may be a ssp. of A. aureus.

syn.
- Acropentias aureus

Description

This species is very similar to Acropentias sp. 2 but it is even more heavily suffused with brown on the median area of the FW. See illustrations of A. aureus in Butler, A.G. (1879: Pl. LI fig 4,) and Wang & Spiedel (2000): 95.

Sabah Parks’ Coll.; Mount Kinabalu N.P., Park H.Q.

References

Butler, A.G. (1879) Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the British Museum. Part III: xvii, 82 pp. Pls. 41-60.
Wang, HsiauYue. & Speidel, W (2000) Guide Book to Insects in Taiwan (19). Pyraloidea (Pyralidae, Crambidae). Shu Shin Books, Taipei, Taiwan: pp 295.
Butler, A.G. (1878b) XLV Descriptions of new species of Heterocera from Japan. Part III, Geometrites, Ann. Mag. nat. Hist., Ser. 5., 1 (6): 392-407.