Hydrorybina violascens Hampson | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Odontiinae
Genus: &nbsp; Hydrorybina
Distribution: W. Malaysia, Sabah; Primary hill forest and disturbed areas.
Habitat: 580-630m.
Wing Length: 6.5mm

Taxonomy

The holotype of Clupeosoma violascens Hampson, 1917: 265, from Kalimantan Selatan, (Pulau Laut) is in the BMNH. comb. n. to Hydrorybina (Munroe 1977: 1349)

Description

A pale pink-brown sp. with a faint discocellular stigma. The patterning is simple. FW with straight narrow, brown submedian and a post-median line angled in the middle and a single straight narrow brown submarginal line on the HW which finishes before the basal area. The termenal margins are brown. Similar to H. polusalis and Hydrorybina sp. 1

Hydrorybina violascens Hampson specimen plate

References

Walker, F. (1859d [May 10]) Pyralides, In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Fourth Series 18: 509-799.
Munroe, E.G. (1977e) New Indo-Malayan Odontiinae (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae), with taxonomic and synonymic notes. Can. Ent. (Ottawa), 109 (10): 1341-1358, figs.
Hampson, G.F. (1917g) XXX Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the Subfamilies Hydrocampinae, Scoparianae, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 8, 20, (118): 265-282.