Syllepte methyalinalis

Syllepte methyalinalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by George Hampson in 1912. It is found in Guyana.^[1]

The wingspan is about 30 mm. The forewings are cupreous brown, the costal area fulvous yellow to the postmedial line and with a sinuous dark antemedial line defined by white marks on each side with a small quadrate white spot beyond it in the cell. There is a quadrate hyaline-white patch in the end of the cell and a slight pale discoidal striga. The postmedial line is excurved between veins 5 and 2, then retracted to the lower angle of the cell and angled outwards on vein 2, with a trifid hyaline patch beyond it from the costa to vein 5, two spots before it between veins 6 and 5, a patch in its sinus and a patch beyond it extending to the termen above the tornus. There are two spots beyond it above and below vein 2 and one before it in the submedian interspace, as well as a dark terminal line. The hindwings are semihyaline white, the base with slight blackish marks and a blackish discoidal annulus, as well as a fine postmedial line excurved to near the termen between veins 5 and 2, then retracted and interrupted to near the tornus. There is a black-brown apical patch extending to vein 4 and a spot below vein 2, as well as a fine terminal line.^[2]

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