Syllepte mesoleucalis

Syllepte mesoleucalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Syllepte
Species: S. mesoleucalis
Binomial name
Syllepte mesoleucalis
(Hampson, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Sylepta mesoleucalis Hampson, 1898

Syllepte mesoleucalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1898.[1] It is endemic to South Africa.[2]

The wingspan is about 30 millimetres (1.2 in). The wings are yellowish-white, thickly irrorated and suffused with fuscous grey. The forewings have a curved black antemedial line and a sinuous postmedial line excurved from the costa to vein 3, then bent inwards to vein 2 and oblique to the inner margin. The area between the two lines is without the fuscous irroration or suffusion from the costa to vein 2. There is a pale centered discoidal stigma. The hindwings have a pale costal area and cell, from the base to the black postmedial line. This line has pale with marks on the outer side. There is a discoidal black spot.[3]

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Syllepte mesoleucalis Hampson, 1898". Afromoths. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. Proc. Zool. Soc. Lond. 1898 : 724


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