Calamotropha oculalis

Calamotropha oculalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Calamotropha
Species:	C. oculalis
Binomial name
	Calamotropha oculalis; (Snellen, 1893)
Synonyms
	Crambus oculalis Snellen, 1893;

Calamotropha oculalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Samuel Constantinus Snellen van Vollenhoven in 1893. It is found on Java[1] and Sri Lanka.[2]

Description

Its wingspan is 8 mm. The male is whitish. Palpi fulvous at sides except the third joint. Abdomen yellowish. Forewings with brown costa, with a broad fulvous fascia below it. An indistinct medial brown line oblique and highly angled below costa, then waved and with black specks on it at lower angle of cell and vein 2. A submarginal line double highly angled below costa, then obsolescent, sinuous and reduced to specks. The apex white with large brown spot. Three black specks on margin below middle. Cilia silvery. Ventral side of forewings suffused with fuscous.[3]

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References

Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
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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[1] Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.

[2] Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57. Retrieved 27 August 2016.

[3] Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.