Encrasima insularis

Encrasima insularis
Scientific classification
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;

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]

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

Savela, Markku. "Encrasima Meyrick, 1916". Lepidoptera and Some Other Life Forms. Retrieved October 11, 2017.
De Prins, J.; De Prins, W. (2017). "Encrasima insularis (Butler, 1880)". Afromoths. Retrieved November 14, 2017.
Annals and Magazine of Natural History (5) 5 (29): 394

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[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