Agrotera ignepictoides

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Agrotera ignepictoides
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Agrotera
Species:
A. ignepictoides
Binomial name
Agrotera ignepictoides
Rothschild, 1916

Agrotera ignepictoides is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Rothschild in 1916. It is found in Papua New Guinea. [1]

The wingspan is about 28 mm. The basal part of the forewings is yellow, spotted with scarlet. The remainder of the wing is pale cinnamon mauve washed with grey-brown at and near the apex. The basal and costal areas of the hindwings are cream, while the rest is pale cinnamon mauve. There is a postmedian row of small dots and the abdominal area is buff with an irregular longitudinal scarlet patch with a yellow dot beyond it. [2]

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References

  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Rothschild, Walter. Macrolepidoptera. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. 1915 Archived December 5, 2014, at the Wayback Machine