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Piletocera meekii

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Piletocera

Piletocera meekii is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by T. P. Lucas in 1894. It is found in Indonesia (Java) and Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.

Adults are dark brown with two white marks on the costa and a broken white line across the wingtip of the forewings. There are two broken wiggly white lines crossing the hindwings.

References

Piletocera meekii Wikipedia