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Four New Species of Evergestis (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 May 2012

Eugene Munroe
Affiliation:
Insect Systematics and Biological Control Unit, Entomology Division, Ottawa, Canada

Extract

Female. Frons slightly produced, with a rudimentary median carina. Head, body and forewing above pale luteous, hind wing above and under side whitish. Abdomen above with narrow white basal band and with three or four obscure blackish-powdered mid-dorsal spots. Fore coxa, femur and tibia brown anteriorly. Forewing above with narrow, obscure, dark, irregularly dentate ante- and post-medial lines. Antemedial oblique outward to origin of Cu1, then sharply angled and oblique inward to inner margin. Postmedial nearly parallel to outer margin, weakly indented along submedian fold. An hourglass-shaped mark at the end of the cell. All these markings surrounded by faint fulvous clouding. Outer margin with minute black dots at ends of veins. Fringe concolorous. Hind wing with one or two dark dots in submedian fold and with black terminal dots at the veins. Under side of forewing with lunate discocellular mark and anterior half of postmedial line conspicuously dark.

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Copyright © Entomological Society of Canada 1959

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