Pycnarmon nebulosalis

Pycnarmon nebulosalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Pycnarmon
Species: P. nebulosalis
Binomial name
Pycnarmon nebulosalis
Hampson, 1896

Pycnarmon nebulosalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1896. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. Adults are white, thickly mottled with brown. The forewings are brown, except for some white specks near the base, a patch in the cell, an apical patch and a spot at the middle of the outer margin. There are traces of a dark waved antemedial line and there is a dark-edged white discocellular spot, as well as a dark waved postmedial line defined by white and bent outwards between veins 7 and 4. There is also a dark marginal line. The hindwings have a white basal area and a fuscous discocellular spot. There is an irregularly waved postmedial line defined by white and with some diffused fuscous on its inner edge and there is a dark marginal line with some dentate white marks on its inner edge.[2]

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. The Fauna of British Ceylon and Burma
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