Orphanostigma angustale

Orphanostigma angustale
Scientific classification
Domain:	Eukaryota
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Crambidae
Genus:	Orphanostigma
Species:	O. angustale
Binomial name
Orphanostigma angustale Hampson, 1893
Synonyms
Syngamia xanthalis Hampson, 1899

Orphanostigma angustale is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1893. It is found on New Guinea[1] and in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Description

This species was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler as follows:

Expanse 2⁄3 inch. Male. Forewing rather narrower than in the other species of the genus. Head, thorax, and abdomen yellow, with some purplish grey suffusion, chiefly on collar and metathorax. Palpi blackish, white below. Forewing purplish grey, a large yellow kidney-shaped spot in and below the cell; a still larger one beyond the cell; some yellow markings on inner margin and at outer angle; cilia yellow, fuscous at apex and middle. Hindwing yellow; a fuscous line on the discocellulars, another across apex; a fuscous blotch at apex; a spot below first median nervule and another at anal angle.[2]

References

1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 15 July 2014.
2. Butler, Arthur G. (Arthur Gardiner); Walsingham, Thomas de Grey, 6th baron, 1843-1919; British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology.; George Francis, 10th bart. Hampson (1877), Illustrations of typical specimens of Lepidoptera Heterocera in the collection of the British Museum .., London: Printed by order of the Trustees, p. Vol9, 173, doi:10.5962/BHL.TITLE.53701, OCLC 10671779, Wikidata Q51493568 This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.