Mabra daulialis Warren
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Tribe: Incertae sedis
- Genus: Mabra
- Distribution: India (Meghalaya), W.
- Habitat: Malaysia, Sabah; Primary forest, disturbed forest and disturbed areas <610m.
- Wing Length: 5.5mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Neurophruda daulialis Warren, 1896: 463-464, is from India, Meghalaya, Khasi Hills [Khasias].
It is the TS of Neurophruda Warren, 1896h: 463-464.
Neurophruda Warren was resurrected as a good genus by Globiz in Acentropinae but treated by many as a junior subjective syn. of Mabra.
We provisionally treat it with Mabra Moore, 1884-1887 [1886]: 280, in the Pyraustinae where Shaffer placed it.
Description
A distinctively patterned sp. FW pale fawn with darker fulvous markings. Narrow chocolate brown antemedian fascia. HW with dark brown apical patch, a rose pink postmedian fascia and a narrow white median fascia with brown patternings. HW basal area pale. The termenae have a series of narrow fulvous, fawn and darker brown lines and orange cillia. HW basal area pale. Note the dark scale spots on the HW tornus. The head is fawn and the thorax fulvous. The abdomen is also fulvous with white intersegmental areas. See Mabra sp. 2 which is very similar but differs in having six not four tornal spots on the HW and more dark brown diffused areas of scales. It could be that the number of tornal spots is variable.
References
- Moore, F. (1884-1887 [1886]) Lepid. Ceylon., Vol 3, IX-XIII, xv + 578pp., pls. [71] 144-215 L. Reeve & Co., London.
- Warren, W. (1896h) LXV New species of moths from the Khasia Hills, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 17 (99): 452-466.