en Hypsopygia nigrivitta

Hypsopygia nigrivitta
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Pyralidae
Genus:	Hypsopygia
Species:	H. nigrivitta
Binomial name
	Hypsopygia nigrivitta; (Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
	Cisse nigrivitta Walker, 1863 ; Herculia nigrivitta ; Buzala fuscicosta Walker, 1863 ; Bejuda costigeralis Walker, [1866] ; Asopia fuscicostalis Snellen, 1880 ; Paractenia obstans Meyrick, 1936 ;

Hypsopygia nigrivitta is a species of snout moth in the genus Hypsopygia.^[2] It was described by Francis Walker in 1863.^[3] It is found in Australia^[2] and south-east Asia, including Borneo, Sulawesi, Java and Malaysia.

The larvae are considered a nuisance since they have the habit of spinning a silken burrow beneath and between two pieces of thatch to which it retreats when not feeding. Usually each thatch strip is occupied by a single larva. As the infested thatch deteriorates with much damage from feeding, a new piece of thatch has to be inserted from time to time.^[4]

References

^ Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Herculia nigrivitta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
^ ^a ^b Savela, Markku. "Herculia nigrivitta (Walker, 1863)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
^ Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 125. Retrieved 29 November 2012.
^ Cheng, FY (1963). "Deterioration of thatch roofs by moth larvae after house spraying in the course of a malaria eradication programme in North Borneo". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 28 (1): 136–7. PMC 2554668. PMID 14020537. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

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[1] Beccaloni, G.; Scoble, M.; Kitching, I.; Simonsen, T.; Robinson, G.; Pitkin, B.; Hine, A.; Lyal, C., eds. (2003). "Herculia nigrivitta". The Global Lepidoptera Names Index. Natural History Museum. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

[funet-2] Savela, Markku. "Herculia nigrivitta (Walker, 1863)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 27, 2018.

[zoology1863-3] Walker, Francis (1863). List of the Specimens of Lepidopterous Insects in the Collection of the British Museum: Lepidoptera Heterocera. Trustees, British Museum. p. 125. Retrieved 29 November 2012.

[4] Cheng, FY (1963). "Deterioration of thatch roofs by moth larvae after house spraying in the course of a malaria eradication programme in North Borneo". Bulletin of the World Health Organization. 28 (1): 136–7. PMC 2554668. PMID 14020537. This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 3.0 license.

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