Syllepte dottoalis

Syllepte dottoalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Schaus in 1927. It is found in the Philippines (Luzon).[1]

Syllepte dottoalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Syllepte
Species:	S. dottoalis
Binomial name
Syllepte dottoalis (Schaus, 1927)
Synonyms
Sylepta dottoalis Schaus, 1927

The wingspan is about 23 mm. The forewings have a black line from the costa at one fourth to the inner margin near the tornus where it is sharply angled and inbent along the inner margin to a vertical black antemedial line, the space within this triangle has a white line on the submedian vein and is otherwise irrorated with lilac grey. There is some black and white scaling at the base limited by an irregular black subbasal line, followed to the antemedial line by a light buff space irrorated with brown. Beyond the oblique line, the costa is white, below it semihyaline cream white. There is a fine brown line on the discocellular and a straight subterminal line, from the costa near the apex to vein 2. There is also a fine brown line along vein 7 from the cell to the subterminal line and the termen is white with wood brown suffusions. The terminal line is fine and brown. The base and inner margin of the hindwings is light buff suffused with wood brown. There is a fuscous black bar on the discocellular and the subterminal line is fuscous black from the costa to vein 2, retracted as a line of scales to the bar on the discocellular and downcurved to the inner margin above a white patch at the tornus. The terminal area is white suffused with wood brown except along a terminal dark brown line.[2]

References

1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
2. The Philippine journal of science