Piletocera agathanalis

Piletocera agathanalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Piletocera
Species: P. agathanalis
Binomial name
Piletocera agathanalis
Schaus, 1924

Piletocera agathanalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Schaus in 1924. It is found in Panama.[1]

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are whitish, the costa, cell and postmedial space before the line suffused with purplish brown and the termen with fuscous. There is a fuscous spot at the base of the costa and a spot near the base of the inner margin. The antemedial line is fuscous and there is a fuscous black line on the discocellular, forming part of a fainter medial line. The postmedial line is rather remote, fuscous, vertical to the discal fold and minutely wavy. There are some faint terminal dark points. The hindwings are semihyaline and whitish. The termen is suffused with purplish brown and there is a black point on the discocellular, as well as a dentate postmedial fuscous line and a fuscous terminal line.[2]

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