Oxybia

Oxybia
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Oxybia[1]
Rebel, 1901
Species: O. transversella
Binomial name
Oxybia transversella
(Duponchel, 1836)
Synonyms

Genus:

  • Oxybia Hampson in Ragonot, 1901

Species:

  • Phycis transversella Duponchel, 1836
  • Myelois bituminella Millière, 1873
  • Oxybia panormitanella Caradja, 1928

Oxybia is a genus of snout moths. It was described by Rebel in 1901, and contains the species Oxybia transversella. It is found in southern Europe[2] and on the Canary Islands.

Adults have grey or brownish-grey forewings with a narrow vertical yellowish brown line with a darker spot above the dorsum on the outside. The hindwings are greyish-brown. Specimens from Fuerteventura are different. They have a uniform pale yellowish forewing almost without any markings, except for a dark spot which is sometimes present above the middle of the dorsum. The hindwings are purely white.[3]

The larvae feed on Psoralea bituminosa.

References

  1. ↑ "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-09-29.
  2. ↑ Fauna Europaea
  3. ↑ New data for Pyraloidea from Fuerteventura (Canary Islands, Spain) including a species new to Science (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea)


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