Eoophyla nigripilosa Yoshiyasu | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Acentropinae
Genus: &nbsp; Eoophyla
Distribution: Thailand, Sabah, China.
Habitat: Water bodies in lowland primary forest and cultivated areas; 460-650m.
Wing Length: 10-12mm

Taxonomy

The holotype of Eoophyla nigripilosa Yoshiyasu (1978: 170, figs 24-25) is from Thailand (Chiang Mai, Nakhorn Nayok, Chanthaburi). Included in the Eoophyla ceratucha group by Jaenicke & Mey (2011: 43).

Description

Typical Eoophyla patterning in brown white and yellow. A full description and figures of genitalia are given in Yoshiyasu (1978). Note the hind coxae with a thick tuft of fulvous scales. A sp. close to E. nigripilosa was amongst the six commonest spp. encountered near the Kinabalu N.P. by Fiedler & Schulze (2004). First recorded from China by Li et al. (2003).

Eoophyla nigripilosa Yoshiyasu specimen plate

References

Yoshiyasu, Y. (1987) Microlepid. Thailand 1: 133-185.
Li, W.C., You, P. & Wang, S-H. (2003) A systematic study of the genus Eoophyla Swinhoe in China, with descriptions of two new species (Lepidoptera, Crambidae, Nymphulinae). Acta Zootaxonomica Sinica 28(2): 295-302.
Fiedler, K. & Schulze, C.H. (2004) Forest modification affects diversity (but not dynamics) of speciose tropical pyraloid moth communities. Biotropica 30(4): 615-627.
Jaenicke, B. & Mey, W. (2011) Revision der Eoophyla ceratucha-Gruppe und ihr Verbreitung in Sudostasien. Beitr. Ent. 61(1): 3-87, 25 figs. [In German]