Kingdom Animalia Class Insecta Family Crambidae Rank Species | Phylum Arthropoda Order Lepidoptera Genus Talanga | |
Talanga talangalis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Hampson in 1899. It is found on the Loyalty Islands.
The wingspan is about 26 mm. The forewings have a yellowish-white basal area, followed by an oblique antemedial rufous band extending along the costa to the base. There is also an oblique medial yellowish band and the terminal half is rufous with a wedge-shaped yellowish postmedial patch on the costa extending down to vein 1. There is also an opalescent whitish discoidal lunule and two subterminal lines with orange between and beyond them. The hindwings are yellowish white, with a brown and orange subterminal band between veins 5 and 2 with opalescent colours before and beyond it. It is followed by a terminal yellow patch with two small black-centered and black-edged metallic green terminal ocelli.