Epipagis lygialis Snellen

Taxonomy

Orobena lygialis Snellen 1899: 60-61, Pl. 3, figs. 3 & 4 was described from Java & Borneo from specimens in Ragonot’s Collection in Paris. A male lectotype from Java (Batavia) is in the RMNH Leiden. It was selected by Munroe et. al. (1958: 79).

As Epipagis Hübner, 1825 in Globiz.

Description

A description (adapted from Snellen, 1899: 60-61). The ochreous yellow FW has a dark basal line, a twice curved, rusty-brown antemedian line and a postmedian zig zag line which angles sharply just above the center and then runs to the middle of the anterior margin. The termen has a thin black-brown serrate line and another fine pale line, the base of the black-brown fringes. The FW is suffused by  rusty brown patches especially in the middle near a slightly paler, faint purple-grey discocellular spot. HW yellow ochreous yellow but paler than the FW, with greyish fringes. The pale yellow abdomen matches the HW in colour and does not extend beyond them.

References

• Munroe, E. G., Diakonoff, A. & Martin, E. L. (1958) Catalogue of Snellen's types of Pyralidae with selections of lectotypes. Tijdschr. v. Ent., 101 (2): 65-88.
• Snellen, P.C.T. (1899a) Eenige aanteekeningen over Pyraliden Tijdschr. v. Ent., 42 (1-2): 58-97, Pl. 3 & 4. [in Dutch].