Ambia punctimarginata

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Ambia punctimarginata
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Ambia
Species:
A. punctimarginata
Binomial name
Ambia punctimarginata
Rothschild, 1915

Ambia punctimarginata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea. [1]

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white, with three spots on the costa and three indistinct dirty brown discal patches. There is a basal dot on the costa and a sooty black median spot below the subcostal vein. There is also a marginal band of sooty black spots. The hindwings are white with two or three irregular and indistinct patches of brown scales and a marginal row of sooty black spots. [2]

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References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. 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