Lamoria anella
| Lamoria anella | |
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| 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] | |
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Lamoria anella is a species of snout moth described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775. 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 the male and 30–40 mm in the female.[5] Head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown. Forewings grey brown, often entirely suffused with red or fuscous. There is an indistinct highly dentate antemedial line. A more or less developed speck in the 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. Hindwings pale semi-hyaline, suffused with fuscous towards margin.[6]
References
- 1 2 "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved June 11, 2017.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ "Koçak,A.Ö. & M. Kemal,2012, Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". academia. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ microlepidoptera.nl
- ↑ Hampson G. F. (1896). The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma: Moths Vol. IV. Taylor & Francis. Retrieved 10 June 2017.