Agrotera ignepicta

Last updated

Agrotera ignepicta
Scientific classification Red Pencil Icon.png
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Agrotera
Species:
A. ignepicta
Binomial name
Agrotera ignepicta
Hampson, 1899

Agrotera ignepicta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. [1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded in Queensland. [2]

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The basal area of the forewings is yellow, variegated with fiery red and with traces of a subbasal dark line and a waved antemedial line. There is a large yellow-and-red patch beyond the cell, defined by dark scales and with some diffuse brown with two red points. The inner area of the hindwings is yellow, variegated with red up to the postmedial line. [3]

Related Research Articles

<i>Hippotion celerio</i> Species of moth

Hippotion celerio, the vine hawk-moth or silver-striped hawk-moth, is a moth of the family Sphingidae. It was described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1758 10th edition of Systema Naturae.

<i>Utetheisa pulchelloides</i> Species of moth

Utetheisa pulchelloides, the heliotrope moth, is a moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in the Indo-Australian region including Borneo, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Papua, Seychelles and most of Australia. The species was first described by George Hampson in 1907.

<i>Agrotera</i> (moth) Genus of moths

Agrotera is a genus of snout moths in the subfamily Spilomelinae of the family Crambidae. It is the type genus of the tribe Agroterini and currently comprises 28 species distributed in the Afrotropical, Palearctic, Indomalayan and Australasian realm.

Spectroreta is a monotypic moth genus belonging to subfamily Drepaninae erected by Warren in 1903. Its only species, Spectroreta hyalodisca, was described by George Hampson in 1896.

<i>Trigonodes hyppasia</i> Species of moth

Trigonodes hyppasia, the triangles or semi-looper, is a moth in the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1779. It is largely cosmopolitan, found throughout Borneo, Fiji, India, Nepal, Sri Lanka, São Tomé and Príncipe, Taiwan, Zimbabwe, northern Australia, and almost all African countries.

<i>Eudocima phalonia</i> Species of moth

Eudocima phalonia, the common fruit-piercing moth, is a fruit piercing moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Carl Linnaeus in his 1763 Centuria Insectorum. It is found in large parts of the tropics, mainly in Asia, Africa and Australia but introduced into other areas such as Hawaii, New Zealand and the Society Islands. It is one of major fruit pests in the world.

<i>Agrotera basinotata</i> Species of moth

Agrotera basinotata is a moth of the family Crambidae described by George Hampson in 1891. It is native to Queensland, Thailand, Hong Kong and Japan, but was introduced to Hawaii for the control of Melastoma malabathricum.

<i>Oraesia emarginata</i> Species of moth

Oraesia emarginata is a species of moth of the family Erebidae first described by Johan Christian Fabricius in 1794. It is found in Australia, New Caledonia, Indonesia, New Guinea, Pakistan, the Philippines, India, Sri Lanka, Sulawesi, Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea and Nepal as well as Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Tanzania, the Gambia, Uganda, Oman and Yemen.

<i>Lacera alope</i> Species of moth

Lacera alope, the toothed drab, is a moth of the family Erebidae. The species was first described by Pieter Cramer in 1780. It is found in Africa, where it is known from southern and eastern Africa, including several islands of the Indian Ocean, Saudi Arabia, and southern Asia from India, Sri Lanka to China.

<i>Autoba abrupta</i> Species of moth

Autoba abrupta is a species of moth of the family Erebidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea, Thailand, and Australia. The species is largely used by the name Eublemma abrupta in Indian and Sri Lankan texts.

<i>Scoparia australiensis</i> Species of moth

Scoparia australiensis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia and Queensland.

Agrotera citrina is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found in Ghana.

<i>Agrotera endoxantha</i> Species of moth

Agrotera endoxantha is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in New Guinea.

Agrotera fumosa is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana and Ivory Coast.

Agrotera setipes is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in Indonesia, where it has been recorded from the Natuna Islands.

<i>Erygia apicalis</i> Species of moth

Erygia apicalis is a moth of the family Erebidae first described by Achille Guenée in 1852. It is found from the Indo-Australian tropics of India, Sri Lanka to Japan, Australia and the Solomon Islands. The habitat consists of lowland areas, including dry heath forests and softwood plantations.

Pilocrocis xanthostictalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1908. It is found in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Madagascar and Tanzania.

Syllepte sulphureotincta is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1918. It is endemic to Mozambique.

Syllepte nasonalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is endemic to South Africa.

Syllepte plumifera is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898. It is found in Indonesia and Papua New Guinea, where it has been recorded from the D'Entrecasteaux Islands.

References

  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
  2. Herbison-Evans, Don & Crossley, Stella (17 March 2012). "Agrotera ignepicta Hampson, 1898". Australian Caterpillars and their Butterflies and Moths. Retrieved 19 October 2018.
  3. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 629