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Polygrammodes semirufa

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Kingdom
  
Animalia

Class
  
Insecta

Family
  
Crambidae

Rank
  
Species

Phylum
  
Arthropoda

Order
  
Lepidoptera

Genus
  
Polygrammodes

Polygrammodes semirufa is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1913. It is found in Brazil (São Paulo).

The wingspan is about 46 mm. The forewings are deep rufous on the costal area to beyond the middle and on the inner area to the middle. The rest of the wing is yellow and there is a faint brown antemedial line. The postmedial line is waved and brownish, with white spots before it on the rufous area in the discal fold and below the end of the cell and yellow spots between veins 5 and 2. The subterminal line is formed by a series of brown lunules and there is a series of slight brown marks just before the termen. The hindwings are yellow, the inner area slightly tinged with rufous. There is a rufous discoidal spot and the postmedial ine is rufous, arising below the costa, produced to three teeth enclosing small yellow spots between veins 5 and 2. There is an indistinct lunulate subterminal line and there are slight brownish spots just before the termen towards the apex and tornus.

References

Polygrammodes semirufa Wikipedia