Lepidoplaga rubellalis Snellen
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Lepidoplaga
- Distribution: India (Sikkim), Burma, W. Malaysia, Sabah, Kalimantan Selat, Kalimantan Berat, Sumatra, Taiwan.
- Habitat: Lowland to submontane forest (inc primary canopy), gardens & disturbed areas; <1580m.
- Wing Length: 12mm
Taxonomy
The male holotype of Botys rubellalis Snellen, 1890: 577, TL India (Sikkim) is in the BMNH. In LepIndex & Globiz as Pyrausta but elsewhere is treated in Pleuroptya [= Patania]. Here it is assigned to Lepidoplaga Warren 1895, a small genus of pink-brown spp. with orange diffused colouration near the wing margins. Several specimens in ITBC Borneensis.
Description
This species is orange brown with faint darker brown submedian and post median lineation and a lunate discal spot. The wing margins and long fringes are a bright orange, with poorly defined darker neural markings. Several unnamed morphotypes resembling this sp. have been noted. Schulze (2000) taxon # 922 ‘Hyalobathra sp. 1’
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References
- Snellen, P. C. T. (1890) A catalogue of the Pyralidina of Sikkim collected by Henry J. Elwes and the late Otto Möller. Trans ent. Soc Lond: 557-647, 2 pl.
- Warren, W. (1895) LXIV New species of Pyralidae, Thyridiae and Epiplemidae. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. Ser. 6, 16 (96): 460-477.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany, 350pp.
