Pseudopagyda sp. 2
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Pseudopagyda
- Distribution: Brunei.
- Habitat: Lowland forest 30m.
- Wing Length: 14mm
Taxonomy
Pseudopagyda sp. 2. an unnamed specimen in the BMNH Accessions boxes, from Brunei (Labi).
Provisionally treated in Pseudopagyda Slamka 2013, 30-31.
Description
A bright orange sp. with distinct darker fulvous marking. The forelegs are distinctively marked in white and brown the mid legs end in pale tarsi. The thorax & abdomen are mainly fulvous. The latter having white intersegmental bands. Some similar specimens in the BMNH are labelled as Pagyda ochrealis Wileman, 1911: 375, pl. 30 fig. 17, as is Pseudopagyda sp. 1 which may be a worn example of this morphotype.
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References
- Wileman, A. E. (1911) XV New and unrecorded species of Lepidoptera Heterocera from Japan, Tr. Roy. Ent. Soc. 59 (2): 189-407, pls. 30, 31.
- Slamka, F. (2013) Pyraloidea of Europe, Pyraustinae & Spilomelinae, Bratislava: 357pp.
