Metasia aphrarcha

Metasia aphrarcha
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Metasia
Species:	M. aphrarcha
Binomial name
	Metasia aphrarcha; (Meyrick, 1887)
Synonyms
	Eurycreon aphrarcha Meyrick, 1887;

Metasia aphrarcha is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Meyrick in 1887.[1] It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Western Australia.

The wingspan is 16–19 mm. The forewings are light fuscous, becoming darker towards the basal two-thirds of the costa. The lines are irregular, cloudy and blackish. The first runs from one-fourth of the costa to one-third of the inner margin, the second from three-fourths of the costa to beneath the discal spot and then bent to the inner margin at three-fifths, preceded and followed by a white irroration, especially towards the costa. There is an indistinct dark fuscous dot beneath the costa before the middle and a small subquadrate discal spot obscurely outlined with cloudy blackish beyond the middle. There is also a hind-marginal row of cloudy blackish dots. The hindwings are pale greyish-ochreous, irregularly irrorated with fuscous. There is an obscure fuscous discal dot.[2]

References

"GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
XII. On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific

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[1] "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.

[2] XII. On Pyralidina from Australia and the South Pacific