Conogethes sp. 7
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Conogethes
- Distribution: Sabah.
- Habitat: Lowland primary forest, 630m.
- Wing Length: 11mm
Taxonomy
Conogethes sp. 7 nr. C. clioalis (Walker, 1859: 549-550). A single specimen from Sabah, PHS in the Schulze Coll.
Description
An extremely sparsley spotted Conogethes sp. It is orange-yellow with darker orange mottlings and with small submarginal brown spots on both wings. The costa has four small dark spots three towards the basal area and another at the post median position. The rest of the lines are an indistinct orange-brown.
Schulze (2000) taxon #243 ‘Conogethes sp. 12’
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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, 350pp.