Ptychopseustis argentisparsalis
| Ptychopseustis argentisparsalis | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Ptychopseustis |
| Species: | P. argentisparsalis |
| Binomial name | |
| Ptychopseustis argentisparsalis (Snellen, 1880) | |
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Ptychopseustis argentisparsalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It is found in Sri Lanka.[1]
Description
Wingspan is 18mm. Fore wings with slightly indented outer margin at vein 6. Body dark fuscous and prominently irrorated with black scales. Fore wings with brilliant silver line from base of costa to median nervure near angle of cell, then erect to inner margin, with a black spot inside it below cell. A curved silver fascia found on subcostal nervure at end of cell and a spot at lower angle. The silvery submarginal line more excurved below costa and nearer the margin. The marginal specks more prominent and on a grey band.[2]
References
- ↑ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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