Crocidolomia sp. 2
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Glaphyriinae
- Genus: Crocidolomia
- Distribution: Sabah. Lowland oil palm plantation; 30m. Very few spp.
- Habitat: of pyrales have been recorded from oil palm plantations but up until now they have not been widely sampled.
- Wing Length: 9mm
Taxonomy
Crocidolomia sp. 2. An unnamed specimen in the Schulze Coll.
Description
This is possibly conspecific with Crocidolomia pavonana Fabricius but is much less distinctly marked and the white patches on the FW are different. See Crocidolomia pavonana and Crocidolomia sp. 1 & sp. 4 Schulze (2000) taxon #169.
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References
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die DiversitÀt von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.
