Agrotera ignepictoides

Agrotera ignepictoides
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Agrotera
Species:	A. ignepictoides
Binomial name
Agrotera ignepictoides Rothschild, 1916

Agrotera ignepictoides is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Rothschild in 1916. It is found in Papua New Guinea.^[1]

The wingspan is about 28 mm. The basal part of the forewings is yellow, spotted with scarlet. The remainder of the wing is pale cinnamon mauve washed with grey-brown at and near the apex. The basal and costal areas of the hindwings are cream, while the rest is pale cinnamon mauve. There is a postmedian row of small dots and the abdominal area is buff with an irregular longitudinal scarlet patch with a yellow dot beyond it.^[2]

References

1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
2. Rothschild, Walter. Macrolepidoptera. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. 1915