Sufetula hemiophthalma
| Sufetula hemiophthalma | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Sufetula |
| Species: | S. hemiophthalma |
| Binomial name | |
| Sufetula hemiophthalma (Meyrick, 1884) | |
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Sufetula hemiophthalma is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Meyrick in 1884. It is found on the Cook Islands, French Polynesia, Fiji[1] and Australia, where it has been recorded from New South Wales and Queensland.[2]
The wingspan is about 12 mm. The forewings are ochreous-white, mixed with pale ochreous, and irregularly irrorated with fuscous and grey. The costa is suffused with dark fuscous and there is a pale line from one-third of the costa to one-third of the inner margin, suffusedly margined posteriorly with dark fuscous. There is a round blackish discal spot and the costa is marked at one-half, five-eighths, and three-fourths with three semicircular dark-centred pale spots and there is a pale line from four-fifths of the costa to four-fifths of the inner margin, suffusedly margined with dark fuscous. There is a row of small obscure blackish spots along the hind margin. The hindwings are white, irrorated with grey and with a round black discal spot, surrounded by a white patch. There is a white line parallel to the hind margin at two-thirds, partially margined with dark fuscous, as well as a row of small obscure dark fuscous spots along the hind margin and a larger one in indentation.[3]
The larvae feed on Cocos nucifera.
References
- ↑ PaDIL
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ Transactions of the Entomological Society of London 1884