Uresiphita marginalis Warren
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Pyraustinae
- Genus: Uresiphita
- Distribution: Burma, W. Malaysia, Sarawak, Indonesia (Java, Irian Jaya), PNG, New Ireland, Solomon Is.
- Habitat: Primary & secondary forest <1200m
- Wing Length: 14mm
Taxonomy
The holotypes of Mimorista marginalis Warren 1896b: 114-115 are from India (Meghalaya, Khasia Hills) and Burma (Tennaserim Donaut Hills). Although listed as a junior subjective syn. of Ategumia geographicalis (Guenée, 1854) in the LepIndex, Shaffer (1970, [note on LepIndex card]) considered this a good sp. In the BMNH are the types of two similar spp. [figured here]. It is probable these are not conspecific and the morphotype from Burma may be an undescribed Boyodes sp. similar to Botys euryphaea Meyrick, 1932, 318.
Description
A delicate yellow moth with brown wing margins and looped brown postmedian lines. FW and HW subcosta is fulvous. The orbicular and reniform stigmas are thin scaled and outlined with brown. The abbomen is elongate and the males have long pale hair scales at its tip.
References
- Guenée, A. (1854) Deltoïdes et pyralites. In Boisduval, J.A. & Guenée, A., Hist. nat. des Insectes (Spec. gén. Lépid.) Vol. 8, 448pp. + 10 pls., Librarie Encyclopédique de Roret: Paris.
- Christoph, H. (1881) Neue Lepidopteren des Amurgebieites, Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Mosc. 56 [LVI] (1): 1-80. [in German]
- Warren, W. (1896b) XVI New species of moths from the Khasia Hills, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, (18): 107-119.
- Caradja, A. (1925b) Euber Chinas Pyraliden, Tortriciden, Tineiden nebst kurze Betrachtungen, zu denen das Studium dieser Fauna Veranlassung gibt Acad. Romana Mem. Sect. Stiint. ser. iii, 3 (7): 257-383, figs.
