Lamoria anella
| Lamoria anella | |
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| Scientific classification | |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Pyralidae |
| Genus: | Lamoria |
| Species: | L. anella |
| Binomial name | |
| Lamoria anella (Denis & Schiffermuller, 1775)[1] | |
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Lamoria anella is a species of snout moth. It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Fennoscandia, Denmark, the Baltic region and Slovenia), the Canary Islands,[2] as well as North Africa (including Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt),[1] South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka[3] and the United Arab Emirates.[4]
Description
The wingspan is 18–28 mm in male and 30–40 mm in female.[5] Head, thorax, and abdomen greyish brown. Fore wings grey brown, often entirely suffused with red or fuscous. There is an indistinct highly dentate antemedial line. A more or less developed speck in cell and discocellular spot. A highly dentate postmedial line sharply angled on vein 4 and often reduced to streaks on the veins. A marginal specks series present. Hind wings pale semi-hyaline, suffused with fuscous towards margin.[6]
References
- 1 2 "World Pyraloidea Database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2012-02-16.
- ↑ Fauna Europaea
- ↑ "Koçak,A.Ö. & M. Kemal,2012, Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". academia. Retrieved 27 August 2016.
- ↑ Afro Moths
- ↑ microlepidoptera.nl
- ↑ 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.