Lepidoplaga sp. 3
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Lepidoplaga
- Distribution: Sabah. Poring Hot Springs (PHS), Kinabalu National Park.
- Habitat: Hill primary forest; 580m.
- Wing Length: 7mm
Taxonomy
Lepidoplaga sp. 3 is a small unnamed morphotype from Sabah (PHS) in the Schulze Coll.
Description
An almost obsolete, orange and purplish suffused species The markings are very indistinct. Resembles Lepidoplaga sp. 2 but is smaller and it is smaller and less well marked than Lepidoplaga flavicinctalis & L. rubellalis. Schulze (2000) Taxon #723 ‘spilomeline sp. 136’.
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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.
- 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.