Nymphicula dilucidalis Guerin-Meneville
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Acentropinae
- Genus: Nymphicula
- Distribution: W. Malaysia, Sabah, Indonesia (Sumatra, Java).
- Habitat: water bodies in lowland cultivated areas; <460m
- Wing Length: 7.5mm
Taxonomy
The holotype of Botys dilucidalis Guérin-Méneville, [1832] 1829-1858 pl. 90, fig. 17 is from Java.
- syn. Ambia dohrni Hering, 1903: 51 pl. 1, fig. 30. TL Sumatra. Syn. n. (Speidel & Mey, 1999: 128);
- syn. Ephormotris octopis Meyrick, 1933: 393, TL Kuala Lumpur. Syn. n. (Speidel & Mey, 1999: 128);
- syn? Oligostigma nectalis Snellen, 1876: 206, pl. O fig. 10. The male type [abd. missing] from Java is in Leiden. (Note on LepIndex Card).
Comb. n. to Ephormotris (Speidel & Mey, 199: 128).
We treat it in Nymphicula.
Description
This species has typical Nymphicula patterning, mainly fulvous and white with some brown markings. Densely speckled brown scales occupies the centre of both wings, that of the HW is separated by a serrate subtermenal line from four, large but misformed eyespots, near the wing margin. It shares its general patterning with Nymphicula cataclystalis Hampson 1897: 166.
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References
- Guérin-Méneville, F. E. ([1832] 1829-1858). Iconographie du Règne Animal de G. Cuvier, ou représentation d’après nature de l’une des espèces les plus remarquables, et souvent
- Snellen, P. C. T., (1876) Over Oligostigma Guenée, eengenus der Pyraliden. Tijdschr. v. Entomol. 19: 186-209, pl. 8-9.
- Hampson, G.F. (1897b) On the classification of two subfamilies of moths of the Family Pyralidae; the Hydrocampinae and Scoparianae. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond. 1897 (7): 127-240.
- Hering, E. (1903) Übersicht der Sumatra-Pyralidae. III., Stettin. Ent. Zeit. 64: 38-97.
- non encore figurées, de chaque genre d’animaux. Avec une texte descriptiv mis au courant de la science. Ouvrage pouvant servir d’atlas à tous les traités de Zoologie. Insectes. [Regn. Anim. Ic. Ins.] ii + 576 pp., 104 pl. + Frontispiece, Paris.
- Speidel, W. & Mey, W. (1999b) Catalogue of the oriental Acentropinae (Crambidae, Pyralidae). Tijdschr. v. Entomol. 142: 125-142, figs. 1-3.