Parapoynx villidalis Walker | The Pyralids of Borneo

Family: &nbsp; Crambidae
Subfamily: &nbsp; Acentropinae
Genus: &nbsp; Parapoynx
Distribution: Sri Lanka, India (Assam), Thailand, Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia (Java, Sangir, Sulawesi), Taiwan, Australia (Q), Fiji, Samoa.
Habitat: Lowland primary &amp; secondary forest; &lt;250m.
Wing Length: 12.5mm

Taxonomy

The female holotype of Oligostigma villidalis Walker, 1859c: 435 from Sarawak is in the Oxford UMNH. The type no. 914 was collected by A.R. Wallace in Sarawak.

syn. Hydrocampa sacadasalis Walker, 1859e: 963 The female type is from Australia (Morton Bay);
syn. Oligostigma unilinealis Snellen, 1876: (196, pl. 8, fig. 1). TL Java.

Comb. n. to Parapoynx (Yoshiyasu, 1987: 75).

Description

Another Parapoynx sp. with a distinctive striped horizontal pattern, in brown white and orange. The HW is falcate near the tornus. There is a small black punctum on the FW and two small black spots on the HW margin near the tornus. Yoshiyasu, (1987: 138-140) re-describes and illustrates the sp. (182 Fig. 32 B) and the genitalia of both sexes (figs 1, 2).

Parapoynx villidalis Walker specimen plate

References

Snellen, P. C. T., (1876). Over Oligostigma Guenée, eengenus der Pyraliden. Tijdschr. v. Ent. 19: 186-209, pl. 8-9.
Yoshiyasu, Y. (1987) Microlepid. Thailand, 1: 133-185.
Walker, F. (1859c). Pyralides. In; List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 17: pp. i-iiv, 255-508.
Walker, F. (1859e [May 10]) List Spec. Lepid. Ins. Coll. B. M., Cat. Lepid. Heterocera. 19: 890-964.