Agrioglypta malayana Butler
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Tribe: Margaroniini
- Genus: Agrioglypta
- Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Sikkim), Burma, W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah, Kalimantan Timur, Java, Taiwan.
- Habitat: Lowland primary & disturbed forest & cultivated areas, <630m.
- Wing Length: 12mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Glyphodes malayana Butler, 1880b: 684-685 is from Taiwan. It was once considered a junior synonym of Agrioglypta itysalis (Walker, 1859) but Shaffer ms stat. n. (1990, note on LepIndex card), considered it to be a good sp.
Description
The sp. has two roughly triangular white patches on the FW the submedian one being narrow the distal one usually has a beaked projection like and A. itysalis Walker and Agrioglypta sp. 5. The HW has a large white basal area and margins with brown and irridescent purplish submarginal bands (also present on the FW). The males have dark anal hair scales. It is easily distinguished from A. zelimalis where the submedian white area of the FW forms a broad white diagonal band. A specimen [RMNH.Ins. #19543] (Leiden) from Kalimantan Timur, (Pasir, Gunung Lumut Protection Forest) has been DNA barcoded [BOLD] (Ratnasingham & Hebert 2007). See Agrioglypta sp. 5 and A. itysalis.
References
- Ratnasingham, S. & Hebert, P.D.N.(2007) Barcoding - BOLD: The Barcode of Life Data System (www.barcodinglife.org), Molecular Ecology Notes (Journal compilation © 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.: 10 pp.
- Walker, F. (1859c) Pyralides. In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 17: 255-508.
- Butler, A.G. (1880b) On a second collection of Lepidoptera made in Formosa by H.E. Hobson Esq. Proc. zool. Soc. Lond: 666-691.
