Ancylolomia chrysographellus
| Angled Grass Moth | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Ancylolomia[1] |
| Species: | A. chrysographellus |
| Binomial name | |
| Ancylolomia chrysographellus (Kollar & Redtenbacher, 1844) | |
| Synonyms | |
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The Angled Grass Moth,[2] (Ancylolomia chrysographellus, is a species of moth in the Crambidae family. It is found on Cyprus[3] and in Kenya, Uganda, Yemen,[4] India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka,[5] Myanmar, China, Korea, Japan, Taiwan, the Philippines and Indonesia.
Description
The wingspan is 25–30 mm for females and 20 mm for males.[6] Antennae of male with short uniseriate laminated branches, which is simple in female. It is a brownish ochreous moth. Fore wings with silvery and yellow fascia, with streaks of black scales on them in cell and the interspaces beyond and below it. A minutely dentate submarginal silvery line with a more prominent tooth at vein 3. A whitish marginal band with a series of dark specks on it. Cilia silvery. Hind wings whitish, pale fuscous, or dark fuscous in Sri Lankan specimens. The fore wings may have a white fascia developed on median nervure.[7]
It is a minor pest of rice. Larva known to feed on many grasses.
References
- ↑ "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2012-03-16.
- ↑ "Angled Grass Moth". African Moths. Retrieved 17 October 2016.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ Ancylolomia at funet
- ↑ World bibliography of rice stem borers, 1794-1990
- ↑ 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.