Burathema? sp. 1

Taxonomy

Burathema? sp. 1. An unnamed morphotype from W Malaysia (GTE) in the HSB Coll. as Pyralis parallelus.

Description

A rather delicate, pale moth. FW speckled with brown scales. These are denser in parts, forming faint median ante-termenal lines. There is a tiny brown punctum at either end of the FW cell. The HW is mainly white but there is a linear area of brown, basally from the tornus. On both wings there are indistinct neural spots on the termenae. The antennae are lamellate-serrate. The legs are thin and spindly and the posterior tibia have long spurs.

Generic placement provisional.