Encrasima insularis

Encrasima insularis is a moth in the family Autostichidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1880. It is found on Madagascar.[1][2]

Encrasima insularis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Autostichidae
Genus: Encrasima
Species:
E. insularis
Binomial name
Encrasima insularis
(Butler, 1880)
Synonyms
  • Gelechia insularis Butler, 1880

Adults are dark fuliginous brown, the forewings crossed before the middle by a broad, pale-edged, golden-ochreous belt, which does not quite reach the costal margin. There is a small, ocelloid, black-brown spot, margined with stramineous (straw colour), beyond the cell, followed immediately by an externally blackish-bordered, curved, golden-ochreous discal band. The apex and outer margin are whitish brown and the marginal line is black. The hindwings are paler than the forewings and without markings.[3]

References

  1. Savela, Markku. "Encrasima Meyrick, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
  2. De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Encrasima insularis (Butler, 1880)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
  3. Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 5 (29): 394 Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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