Metasia polytima

Metasia polytima is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Turner in 1908. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]

Metasia polytima
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Crambidae
Genus:
Metasia
Species:
M. polytima
Binomial name
Metasia polytima
Turner, 1908
Synonyms
  • Metasia nyctichroa Turner, 1908

The wingspan 14–15 mm. The forewings are pale-reddish with a broad dark-fuscous costal streak, a fine fuscous transverse line and a pale discal spot outlined with fuscous and connected by a fine fuscous line with the dorsum beyond the middle. There is also a wavy dark-fuscous line from the costa to before the tornus and the disc is suffused with fuscous beyond this. The terminal line is dark-fuscous. The hindwings have the same colour, antemedian, postmedian and terminal lines as the forewings.[2]

References
  1. "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia Public Domain This article incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain.


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