Culladia admigratella

Culladia admigratella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Culladia
Species: C. admigratella
Binomial name
Culladia admigratella
(Walker, 1863)
Synonyms
  • Araxes admigratella Walker, 1863

Culladia admigratella is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Walker in 1863.[1] It has a wide range in the tropics, and has been recorded from the British Indian Ocean Territory, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Sumatra.[2]

Description

Wingspan is about 16mm. Both wings with veins 4,5 stalked. Head and thorax white marked with fuscous. Palpi banded with fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wings whitish with fuscous suffusion. There is an indistinct postmedial line running out to an angle on vein 5, retracted along vein 2 to below middle of cell, then bent outwards again, the area beyond it whiter. An indistinct highly dentate submarginal line present. Hind wings whitish. The apical area tinged with fuscous.[3]

The larvae feed on Eleusine indica and Panicum species.

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Archived from the original on 2014-10-06. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Afro Moths
  3. Hampson G. F. (1892). "The Fauna Of British India Including Ceylon And Burma Moths Vol-iv". Digital Library of India. p. 558. Retrieved 4 July 2016.
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