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Trigonoorda? sp. 2

  • Family: Crambidae
  • Subfamily: Odontiinae
  • Genus: Trigonoorda
  • Distribution: Sabah.
  • Habitat: Lower Montane, primary forest & disturbed vegetation, 1200m.
  • Wing Length: 8mm

Taxonomy

Trigonoorda? sp. 2 is a single unspread specimen in the Schulze Coll. from Sabah (Crocker Range N. P.).

Note the large furry palps which may indicate Hyalinarcha Munroe 1974: 35.

Description

A pale pinky buff sp.. FW with a broad darker shading sub termenal band bordered by a serrate post median line. There a dark sub-costal c-shaped mark, a trace of a submedian line at the costa. and a triangular blackish mark in the middle of the basal margin.

Schulze (2000) taxon #660 ‘Pseudonoorda? sp. 2.’

References

  • Munroe, E. (1974) Pyralidae of the Third Archbold Expedition. 1. Subfamily Odontiinae (Lepidotera), Tijdschrift V. Ent., 117, 92: 27-37, pl. 1-5.

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