Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Crambidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Culladia | |
Culladia admigratella is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Walker in 1863. It has a wide range in the tropics, and has been recorded from the British Indian Ocean Territory, Kenya, Malawi, Mauritius, Nigeria, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Socotra, India, Myanmar, the Philippines, Sri Lanka and Sumatra.
Description
Wingspan is about 16mm. Both wings with veins 4,5 stalked. Head and thorax white marked with fuscous. Palpi banded with fuscous. Abdomen pale fuscous. Fore wings whitish with fuscous suffusion. There is an indistinct postmedial line running out to an angle on vein 5, retracted along vein 2 to below middle of cell, then bent outwards again, the area beyond it whiter. An indistinct highly dentate submarginal line present. Hind wings whitish. The apical area tinged with fuscous.
The larvae feed on Eleusine indica and Panicum species.