Stemorrhages oceanitis
Stemorrhages oceanitis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found on Vanuatu, Fiji,[1] and Sri Lanka.[2]
| Stemorrhages oceanitis | |
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Scientific classification  | |
| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Stemorrhages |
| Species: | S. oceanitis |
| Binomial name | |
| Stemorrhages oceanitis (Meyrick, 1886) | |
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The wingspan is 44–40 mm. The forewings are pale green, irregularly suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a narrow ferruginous costal streak, beneath margined by a suffused white streak. There is a row of dark grey dots on the hind margin and sometimes a grey hind-marginal line. The hindwings have the same colour and hind-marginal dots as the forewings.[3]
References
- Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
- Kalhara, Bushana. "Stemorrhages oceanitis from Indhikada Mookalana forest reserve, Sri Lanka". Biodiversity of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
- Meyrick, Edward (1886). "Descriptions of Lepidoptera from the South Pacific". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1886: 222 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.
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