Schacontia chanesalis

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Schacontia chanesalis
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Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Schacontia
Species:
S. chanesalis
Binomial name
Schacontia chanesalis
(H. Druce, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Pionea chanesalisH. Druce, 1899
  • Schacontia replicaDyar, 1914
  • Schacontia pfeifferiAmsel, 1956

Schacontia chanesalis is a moth of the family Crambidae described by Herbert Druce in 1899. It is found in Mexico, Guatemala, Costa Rica and Venezuela.

The length of the forewings is 4.5–9 mm. The baso-costal triangle on the forewings is flanked by white scaling towards the inner margin and in the medial area, which is outwardly shaded brown. The postmedial area is greyish brown. The ground colour of the hindwings is white or very light grey, but darker postmedially. [1]

Larvae have been reared from Podandrogyne decipiense .

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References

  1. Goldstein, Paul Z.; Metz, Mark A.; Solis, M. Alma (2013). "Phylogenetic systematics of Schacontia Dyar with descriptions of eight new species (Lepidoptera, Crambidae)". ZooKeys (291): 27–81. Bibcode:2013ZooK..291...27G. doi: 10.3897/zookeys.291.3744 . PMC   3677288 . PMID   23794861. Creative Commons by small.svg  This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4.0 license.