Talanga talangalis

Talanga talangalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found in the Loyalty Islands in the Pacific Ocean east of Australia.[1]

Talanga talangalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Talanga
Species:
T. talangalis
Binomial name
Talanga talangalis
(Hampson, 1899)
Synonyms
  • Glyphodes talangalis Hampson, 1899

The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings have a yellowish-white basal area, followed by an oblique antemedial rufous band extending along the costa to the base. There is also an oblique medial yellowish band and the terminal half is rufous with a wedge-shaped yellowish postmedial patch on the costa extending down to vein 1. There is also an opalescent-whitish discoidal lunule and two subterminal lines with orange between and beyond them. The hindwings are yellowish white, with a brown and orange subterminal band between veins 5 and 2 with opalescent colours before and beyond it. It is followed by a terminal yellow patch with two small black-centered and black-edged metallic-green terminal ocelli.[2]

References
  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London 1898: 743


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