Lamoria anella

Lamoria anella is a species of snout moth described by Michael Denis and Ignaz Schiffermüller in 1775 found in Africa, Asia and Europe.

Lamoria anella
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Pyralidae
Genus: Lamoria
Species:
L. anella
Binomial name
Lamoria anella
Synonyms
List
    • Tinea anella Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775
    • Melia bipunctana Curtis, 1828
    • Lamoria anella var. insulana Schawerda, 1931
    • Lamoria anella var. marocana D. Lucas, 1955
    • Lamoria anella var. variegata D. Lucas, 1949

Description

The wingspan is 18–28 mm in the male and 30–40 mm in the female.[2] Head, thorax and abdomen greyish brown. Forewings grey brown, often entirely suffused with red or fuscous. There is an indistinct highly dentate antemedial line. A more or less developed speck in the 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. Hindwings pale semi-hyaline, suffused with fuscous towards margin.[3]

Distribution

It is found in most of Europe (except Ireland, Great Britain, Fennoscandia, Denmark, the Baltic region and Slovenia), the Canary Islands, as well as North Africa (including Tunisia, Morocco and Egypt), South Africa, India, Afghanistan, Sri Lanka and the United Arab Emirates.[1][4][5][6]

The first confirmed British record was recorded in a garden at Hartford, Huntingdonshire on 5 October 2018, possibly as a migrant.[7]

References
  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 11 June 2017.
  2. Microlepidoptera.nl Archived 2013-11-11 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1896). The Fauna of British India, Including Ceylon and Burma: Moths Volume IV. Taylor and Francis – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
  4. "Lamoria anella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)". Fauna Europaea. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  5. Koçak, Ahmet Ömer; Kemal, Muhabbet (20 February 2012). "Preliminary list of the Lepidoptera of Sri Lanka". Cesa News. Centre for Entomological Studies Ankara (79): 1–57 – via Academia.
  6. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Lamoria anella (Denis & Schiffermüller, 1775)". Afromoths. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  7. Clancy, Sean (2019). "Occurrences of the Rarer Immigrant and Adventive Moths in 2018". Atropos (Migration review 2018): 3–9. ISSN 1478-8128.


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