Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Crambidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Calamotropha | |
Calamotropha atkinsoni is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Zeller in 1863. It is found in south-east Asia, where it has been recorded from India, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Singapore and Sulawesi.
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Description
Wingspan is 28mm in male and 28-34mm in female. Fore wings with vein 11 curved and approximated to vein 12. Hind wings with veins 4,5 from angle of cell. Fore wings with rectangular apex. In male, head and thorax brownish grey. Fore wings with costal and inner area grey irrorated with fuscous, leaving a golden brown and fuscous streak along median nervure, expanding in the interspaces between veins 3 and 5. A black discocellular spot and traces of a curved submarginal dark specks series present. A marginal black specks series present. Hind wings nearly pure white. Abdomen and ventral side whitish. Female with head, thorax and fore wings much more uniformly coppery golden brown, irrorated with white scales. The costal area of fore wings darker reddish brown. The discocellular spot more prominent. No traces of submarginal dark specks. Hind wings pure white as in male.