Hypsopygia nigrivitta

Hypsopygia nigrivitta
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Hypsopygia[1]
Species: H. nigrivitta
Binomial name
Hypsopygia nigrivitta
(Walker, 1863) [2]
Synonyms
  • Cisse nigrivitta Walker, 1863
  • Herculia nigrivitta
  • Buzala fuscicosta Walker, 1863
  • Bejuda costigeralis Walker, [1866]
  • Asopia fuscicostalis Snellen, 1880
  • Paractenia obstans Meyrick, 1936

Hypsopygia nigrivitta is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia. It was described by Walker in 1863.[3] It is found in Australia[1] and south-east Asia, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Malaysia.

The larvae are considered a nuisance since they have the habit of spinning a silken burrow beneath and between two pieces of thatch to which it retreats when not feeding. Usually each thatch strip is occupied by a single larva. As the infested thatch deteriorates with much damage from feeding, a new piece of thatch has to be inserted from time to time.[4]

References

  1. 1 2 Savela, Markku (2009): Markku Savela's Lepidoptera and some other life forms – Herculia. Version of 2009-APR-08. Retrieved 2010-APR-12.
  2. ↑ HERCULIA nigrivitta at The Global Lepidoptera Names Index, Natural History Museum
  3. ↑ Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 125. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
  4. ↑ Cheng, FY. "Deterioration of thatch roofs by moth larvae after house spraying in the course of a malaria eradication programme in North Borneo". Bull World Health Organ. 28: 136–7. PMC 2554668 Freely accessible. PMID 14020537.


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