Hypsopygia nigrivitta

Hypsopygia nigrivitta
Scientific classification
Kingdom:Animalia
Clade:Euarthropoda
Class:Insecta
Order:Lepidoptera
Family:Pyralidae
Genus:Hypsopygia
Species: H. nigrivitta
Binomial name
Hypsopygia nigrivitta
(Walker, 1863) [1]
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

  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.
  2. 1 2 Savela, Markku. "Herculia nigrivitta (Walker, 1863)". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved January 27, 2018.
  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. "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: 136–7. PMC 2554668. PMID 14020537.


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