Uthinia albisignalis Hampson

Taxonomy

The holotype of Orphnophanes albisignalis Hampson, 1896: 231 is from India.

• syn. Uthinia albostrigalis Snellen, 1899: 180, pl. 8, fig. 7-9. TL W. Java (Preanger). The lectotype selected by Munroe et al. 1958: 68 is in Leiden. Syn. n. (Nuss 1998; 516).

The monospecific genus Uthinia Snellen, 1899 :179 was unplaced as to subfamily in the Crambidae until relatively recently.

Yen & Yang treated the genus as Scopariinae (1996) but the LepIndex follows RTS and treats Uthinia in the Crambidae: Musotiminae.

Description

A rather plain orange-brown sp. with paler brown HW. The FW has a distinctive oblique silver-white spot in the disco-cellular area.

Life History

Possibly a fern feeder (RTS: 169).

References

• Hampson, G.F. (1896) Moths, Vol. IV, In Blandford, W.T. (ed.), The Fauna of British India including Ceylon and Burma, W.T., Taylor and Francis, London: xxiii + 594pp.
• Snellen, P.C.T. (1899) Eenige aanteekeningen over Pyraliden Tijdschr. v. Ent. 41 : 173-193, pl. 1 figs. 7-9.
• Munroe, E. G., Diakonoff, A. & Martin, E. L., (1958) Catalogue of Snellen's types of Pyralidae, with selections of lectotypes. Tijdschr v. Ent., 101: 65-88.
• [RTS] Robinson, G.S., Tuck, K.R. & Shaffer, M. (1994) A Field Guide to the Smaller Moths of South-East Asia, Malaysian Nature Society Kuala Lumpur & Natural History Museum, London, 311 pp. 51 text figs, 32 pls.
• RTS (1994): 169, pl. 28, fig.17.
• Yen, S-H & Yang, P-S. (1996) Uthinia albisignalis (Hampson) (Pyralidae: Scopariinae) from Taiwan. Japan Heterocera J. 187: 189-191.
• Nuss, M. (1998) The Scopariinae and Heliothelinae stat. rev. (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae) of the Oriental Region - a revisional synopsis with descriptions of new species from the Philippines and Sumatra. Nachr. des entomol. Ver. Apollo, Frankfurt a. M. suppl. 17: 475–528.