Sclerocona sarcalis Hampson

Taxonomy

The female holotype of Calamochrous sarcalis Hampson, 1908 (584, Plate E., fig. 37) from Sri Lanka (Kandy) is in the BMNH.

Description

Female: head, thorax and abdomen ochreous, the ventral surface, the sides of frons and the antennae, white. FW fleshy ochreous, the veins finely streaked with brown, the inter-neural spaces of terminal area with fine brown streaks and red-brown cilia. One indiscal fold rather prominent; the costal edge is white. HW golden-yellow, with white tipped cilia. (Hampson, 1908). Note the rather long, square-ended abdomen of the female.

References

• Meyrick E. (1890) On the classification of the Pyralidina of the European fauna. Trans. ent. Soc. Lond.: 429-492.
• Hampson, G.F. (1908a) The moths of India- Supplementary papers to the Volume in the Fauna of British India. Ser.III, Pt.X. J. Bombay nat. Hist. Soc. 18 (1): 27-53. + pl. E (op. p.44)