Coptobasis sp. 3

Taxonomy

Coptobasis sp. 3. An unnamed specimen found in a series of C. mesospectralis Hampson 1897 in the B.M.N.H..

Cydalima violalis Hering 1901: 246-247; 1903: 178, Pl. 1, fig 22. Plate index: 178. T.L. Indonesia (Sumatra), is remarkably similar.

Description

Wings virtually unmarked. Note their distinctive metallic blue/purple colour. The subcosta is dark black-brown and the wing margins are the same. The antennal bases are simple & the scape is filiform with short cillia. The thorax is dark brown and dorsally the abdomen is dark grey brown.

Underside not closely examined but a pectoral collar was not noticed.

This morphospecies was thought to be the male of the similar Coptobasis sp. 4 It may be Cydalima violalis Hering 1901.

References

• Hering, E. M. (1903) Neue Pyraliden aus dem Tropischen Faunengebiet, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 64 (1), 97-112.
• Hering, E. M. (1901b) Eubersicht der Sumatra-Pyralidae, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 62 (6-12): 219-348, pls. 3,4.
• Hering, E. M. (1901a) Eubersicht der Sumatra-Pyralidae, Stett. Entomol. Zeit., 62 (1-6): 13-118, pls. 1-2.