Samiksha Jaiswal (Editor)

Piletocera agathanalis

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Piletocera

Piletocera agathanalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Schaus in 1924. It is found in Panama.

The wingspan is about 18 mm. The forewings are whitish, the costa, cell and postmedial space before the line suffused with purplish brown and the termen with fuscous. There is a fuscous spot at the base of the costa and a spot near the base of the inner margin. The antemedial line is fuscous and there is a fuscous black line on the discocellular, forming part of a fainter medial line. The postmedial line is rather remote, fuscous, vertical to the discal fold and minutely wavy. There are some faint terminal dark points. The hindwings are semihyaline and whitish. The termen is suffused with purplish brown and there is a black point on the discocellular, as well as a dentate postmedial fuscous line and a fuscous terminal line.

References

Piletocera agathanalis Wikipedia