Ambia punctimarginata

Ambia punctimarginata is a moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Papua New Guinea.[1]

Ambia punctimarginata
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Ambia
Species:
A. punctimarginata
Binomial name
Ambia punctimarginata

The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white, with three spots on the costa and three indistinct dirty brown discal patches. There is a basal dot on the costa and a sooty black median spot below the subcostal vein. There is also a marginal band of sooty black spots. The hindwings are white with two or three irregular and indistinct patches of brown scales and a marginal row of sooty black spots.[2]

References
  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Rothschild, Walter. Macrolepidoptera. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. 1915


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