Scoparia? sp. 4
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Scopariinae
- Tribe: Scopariini
- Genus: Scoparia
- Distribution: Sabah.
- Habitat: Hill primary forest canopy, 650m
- Wing Length: 8mm
Taxonomy
Scoparia sp. 4. A single unnamed specimen from Sabah (PHS) in the Schulze-Coll. [Hauser specimen #4072].
Note Eudonia Billberg 1820: 93 & Scoparia Haworth, [1811]: 498 have few distinctive genitalic and (other) features to separate them (Svensson 1992). Here we deal with unnamed specimens of both genera under Scoparia as a ‘lumping’ for convenience to compare very similar spp.
Description
A pale greyish brown sp.. FW with typical scopariine patterning and a pale curving postmedian line. The HW is pale grey. Schulze (2000) taxon #897.
Similar to the European Scoparia subfusca.
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References
- Haworth, A.W. ([1811] 1803-1828) Lepidoptera Britannica, sistens digestimen novam lepidopterorum quae in Magna Britannica reperiunter - adjunguntur dissertationes variae ad historiam naturalam spectantes [Lepid. Britannica] 3: 377-512.
- Billberg, G.J. (1820) Enum. Ins. Mus. Billb. [Enumeratio insectorum in Museo Gust. Joh. Billberg. [Holmiae]. Typis Gadelianis]: 139 pp.
- Svensson, I. (1992) Splitter or lumper or both, Nota Lepid. 15, Suppl. 3: 101-107.
- Schulze, C.H. (2000) Auswirkungen anthropogener Störungen auf die Diversität von Herbivoren. (Analys von Nachtfalterzönosen entlang von Habitatgradienten in Ost-Malaysia). Unpubl. PhD Thesis, University of Bayreuth, Germany: 350 pp.