Irigilla nypsiusalis Walker
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Odontiinae
- Genus: Irigilla
- Distribution: Sabah, Sarawak.
- Habitat: Lowland primary and disturbed forest; <900m.
- Wing Length: 9mm
Taxonomy
The badly damaged holotype of Rhodaria nypsiusalis Walker, 1859: 924-925 is from Sarawak. It was collected by A.R. Wallace and is type #1154 in the Oxvford U.M.N.H. It is the TS of Irigilla (Swinhoe, 1900: 532). Un-named specimens from Borneo are in the BMNH and MfNH.
Description
A distinctive and fairly common sp., attractively patterned in pink and purple with a golden margin and long golden fringes. The FW has a curving serrate submarginal line. The HW is mainly grey with a wedge of pinkish purple extending from the central area to the centre of the termen. The head, thorax and abdomen are purplish with white intersegmental rings on the abdomen. Some Herculia sp. and Endotricha spp. are superficially similar but their wings are totally pink-purple with golden margins. See Calamochrous [Irigilla] purpuralis Hampson 1908c: 584. which is very similar.
References
- Hampson, G. F. (1908c) The moths of India- Supplementary papers to the Volume in the Fauna of British India. Ser.III, Pt.X. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (3): 572-586.
- Walker, F. (1859e) XIX Pyralides [sic], In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. Ser. 4, 19: 799-1036.
- Swinhoe, C. (1900c) Noctuina, Geometrina & Pyralidina. Pp. 1-540, pls 1–8. In: Swinhoe, C., L. Walsingham & J. H. Durrant, Catalogue of eastern and Australian Lepidoptera Heterocera in the Collection of the Oxford University Museum. Part II. Clarendon Press, Oxford.