Culladia admigratella

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Culladia admigratella
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Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Culladia
Species:
C. admigratella
Binomial name
Culladia admigratella
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Araxes admigratellaWalker, 1863

Culladia admigratella is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Francis Walker in 1863. [1] It has a wide range in the tropics, and has been recorded from the British Indian Ocean Territory, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Sumatra. [2]

Description

Its wingspan is about 16 mm. Both wings with veins 4 and 5 stalked. Head and thorax white marked with fuscous. Palpi banded with fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous. Forewings whitish with fuscous suffusion. There is an indistinct postmedial line running out to an angle on vein 5, retracted along vein 2 to below middle of the cell, then bent outwards again, the area beyond it whiter. An indistinct highly dentate submarginal line present. Hindwings whitish. The apical area tinged with fuscous. [3]

The larvae feed on Eleusine indica and Panicum species.

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References

  1. ↑ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. ↑ De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Culladia admigratella (Walker, 1963)". Afromoths. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Vol. Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.PD-icon.svg This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain .


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