Desmia paucimaculalis

Desmia paucimaculalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Desmia
Species: D. paucimaculalis
Binomial name
Desmia paucimaculalis
Hampson, 1898
Synonyms
  • Desmia sepulchralis Warren, 1889 (preocc. Guenée)

Desmia paucimaculalis is a moth in the Crambidae family.[1] It is found in Brazil (Amazons)[2] and Honduras.

The wingspan is about 24 mm. The wings are black, the forewings with a small subtriangular hyaline spot in the cell and an elongate wedge-shaped bar beyond the cell. There is an oblique antemedial hyaline band on the hindwings.[3]

References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Desmia at funet
  3. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1898: 632


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