Bradina adhaesalis Walker

Taxonomy

The holotype of Botys adhaesalis Walker, 1858: 664, from Sri Lanka is in the BMNH.

• syn. Botys teutalis Walker, 1859: 690-691. TL Sarawak. The type #935 was collected by A.R. Wallace. It is in the Oxford U.M.N.H..
• Botys aeclusalis Walker 1859: 687. TL Sarawak. The type #936 was collected by A.R. Wallace. It is in the Oxford UMNH and is considered as syn. but we treat it as a good sp.

Description

This dark brown sp. has few wing markings, just a faint curved post median line on FW & HW and a few darker spots on the FW including a faint elongate stigma. Note the shape of the FW and HW post median lines which curve smoothly to the wing edges. In B. aeclusalis the line is straight. See Bradina admixtalis Walker, 1859 which is very similar but paler. In Bradina there is pronounced sexual dimorphism with males having very elongate abdomens with long pale hair pencils at the tip. Schulze (2000) taxon #580.

References

• 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.
• Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 18: 509-798.