Ambia flavipictalis Hampson
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Musotiminae
- Genus: Ambia
- Distribution: W. Malaysia, Singapore, Sabah, Brunei.
- Habitat: Lowland primary forest; <630m.
- Wing Length: 5.5mm
Taxonomy
This worn morphotype, of Oligostigma flavipictalis Hampson, 1917: 469-470. Is present in the Schulze, HSB and SLS Colls. The female holotype of Oligostigma flavipictalis is from Singapore (Meade-Waldo).
Oligostigma Guenée, 1854 is an acentropine genus; consequently this musotimine should be allocated to another genus, probably Ambia Walker, 1859.
Description
A sp. with silvery-white scales on the body (when worn the colour becomes brown). Both wings are silvery white with a distinctive looping, fulvous patterning. Hampson’s description fits especially note the ‘brown striga’ below the FW cell which he mentions. Schulze (2000) taxon #664 (Sabah, PHS, Por3).
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References
- Guenée, A. (1854) Deltoïdes et pyralites. In Boisduval, J.A. & Guenée, A., Hist. nat. des Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) Vol. 8, 448pp. + 10 pls., Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
- Hampson, G.F. (1917b) XLV Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the Subfamilies Hydrocampinae, Scoparianae etc., Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 19: 457-473.
