Ancylolomia

Ancylolomia
Ancylolomia tentaculella
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Subfamily: Crambinae
Genus: Ancylolomia
Hübner, 1825[1]
Synonyms
  • Acylolomia Hampson, 1919
  • Jartheza Walker, 1863
  • Pseudoctenella Strand, 1907
  • Ctenus Mabille, 1906
  • Tollia Amsel, 1949

Ancylolomia is a genus of moths of the Crambidae family.

Description

Palpi porrect, thickly clothed with hair, and extending about three times the length of head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons oblique. Abdomen long. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds lengths of inner. Fore wings long and narrow. The rounded apex. The outer margin excised below apex, then excurved. Veins 3,4,5 from angle of cell and veins 7,8,9 stalked. Vein 10 free and vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12. Hind wings with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. Veins 4,5 from angle or stalked. Vein 6 from above middle of discocellulars and obsolescent. Vein 7 anastomosing with vein 8.[2]

Species

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2011-10-10.
  2. 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.
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