Orthoraphis paula

Orthoraphis paula is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by West in 1931. It is found in the Philippines (Luzon).[1]

Orthoraphis paula
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Crambidae
Genus:
Orthoraphis
Species:
O. paula
Binomial name
Orthoraphis paula
West, 1931

The wingspan is about 15 mm. The forewings are buff overlaid with clay colour, and bone-brown on the basal third of the costa, bone-brown on the costa before the apex and there is a bone-brown spot on the median nervure subbasally. The antemedial fascia consists of a bone-brown dentate line and there is a bone-brown spot on the discocellulars. The subterminal fascia consists of an inwardly oblique, wavy, buff line, defined by bone-brown with a deep suffusion of clay-colour proximally and a light suffusion distally. The hindwings are buff with a bone-brown spot on the discocellulars and a postmedial fascia consisting of a bone-brown line from the costa for a short distance then becoming obsolescent.[2]

References
  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Novitates Zoologicae


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