Metasia aphrarcha
| Metasia aphrarcha | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Metasia |
| Species: | M. aphrarcha |
| Binomial name | |
| Metasia aphrarcha (Meyrick, 1887) | |
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Metasia aphrarcha is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1887.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia.
The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, becoming darker towards the basal two-thirds of the costa. The lines are irregular, cloudy and blackish. The first runs from one-fourth of the costa to one-third of the inner margin, the second from three-fourths of the costa to beneath the discal spot and then bent to the inner margin at three-fifths, preceded and followed by a white irroration, especially towards the costa. There is an indistinct dark fuscous dot beneath the costa before the middle and a small subquadrate discal spot obscurely outlined with cloudy blackish beyond the middle. There is also a hind-marginal row of cloudy blackish dots. The hindwings are pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with fuscous. There is an obscure fuscous discal dot.[2]
References
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ XII. On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific