Lamoria anella

Lamoria anella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Lamoria
Species: L. anella
Binomial name
Lamoria anella
(Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)[1]
Synonyms
  • Tinea anella Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775
  • Melia bipunctana Curtis, 1828
  • Lamoria anella var. insulana Schawerda, 1931
  • Lamoria anella var. marocana D. Lucas, 1955
  • Lamoria anella var. variegata D. Lucas, 1949

Lamoria anella is a species of snout moth. It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Fennoscandia, Denmark, the Baltic region and Slovenia), the Canary Islands,[2] as well as North Africa (including Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt),[1] South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka[3] and the United Arab Emirates.[4]

Description

The wingspan is 18–28 mm in male and 30–40 mm in female.[5] Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wings grey brown, often entirely suffused with red or fuscous. There is an indistinct highly dentate antemedial line. A more or less developed speck in cell and discocellular spot. A highly dentate postmedial line sharply angled on vein 4 and often reduced to streaks on the veins. A marginal specks series present. Hind wings pale semi-hyaline, suffused with fuscous towards margin.[6]

References

  1. 1 2 "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
  2. Fauna Europaea
  3. "Koçak,A.Ö. & M. Kemal,2012, Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". academia. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
  4. Afro Moths
  5. microlepidoptera.nl
  6. 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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