Metacrateria pulverulella

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Metacrateria pulverulella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Metacrateria [1]
Species:M. pulverulella
Binomial name
Metacrateria pulverulella
(Hampson, 1918)
Synonyms
  • Anerastia pulverulellaHampson, 1896

Metacrateria pulverulella is a species of snout moth. It was described by George Hampson in 1918. It is found in Sri Lanka. [2]

Pyralidae Family of moths

The Pyralidae, commonly called pyralid moths, snout moths or grass moths, are a family of Lepidoptera in the ditrysian superfamily Pyraloidea. In many classifications, the grass moths (Crambidae) are included in the Pyralidae as a subfamily, making the combined group one of the largest families in the Lepidoptera. The latest review by Eugene G. Munroe & Solis, in Kristensen (1999) retains the Crambidae as a full family of Pyraloidea.

Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet was a British entomologist.

Sri Lanka Island country in South Asia

Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka, is an island country in South Asia, located in the Indian Ocean to the southwest of the Bay of Bengal and to the southeast of the Arabian Sea. The island is geographically separated from the Indian subcontinent by the Gulf of Mannar and the Palk Strait. The legislative capital, Sri Jayawardenepura Kotte, is a suburb of the commercial capital and largest city, Colombo.

Description

The wingspan is about 18 mm. Frons with a long flattened corneous projection more or less buried in scales. In the male, the head white and brown. Thorax pale brown. Abdomen ochreous. Forewings ochreous, with broad white costal fascia irrorated (sprinkled) with fuscous, tapering to the apex, its lower edge defined by brown. A prominent dark speck found at the lower angle of cell. The veins beyond the cell, vein 1 and inner margin white irrorated with fuscous. Hindwings are whitish. [3]

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References

  1. ↑ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2011). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved September 29, 2011.
  2. ↑ Savela, Markku. "Metacrateria pulverulella (Hampson, 1896)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved July 23, 2018.
  3. ↑ Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma. Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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