Stemorrhages oceanitis

Stemorrhages oceanitis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Edward Meyrick in 1886. It is found on Vanuatu, Fiji,[1] and Sri Lanka.[2]

Stemorrhages oceanitis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Crambidae
Genus:
Stemorrhages
Species:
S. oceanitis
Binomial name
Stemorrhages oceanitis
(Meyrick, 1886)
Synonyms
  • Margarodes oceanitis Meyrick, 1886

The wingspan is 44–40 mm. The forewings are pale green, irregularly suffusedly irrorated (sprinkled) with white and with a narrow ferruginous costal streak, beneath margined by a suffused white streak. There is a row of dark grey dots on the hind margin and sometimes a grey hind-marginal line. The hindwings have the same colour and hind-marginal dots as the forewings.[3]

References
  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2017). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 4 July 2018.
  2. Kalhara, Bushana. "Stemorrhages oceanitis from Indhikada Mookalana forest reserve, Sri Lanka". Biodiversity of Sri Lanka. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
  3. Meyrick, Edward (1886). "Descriptions of Lepidoptera from the South Pacific". Transactions of the Entomological Society of London. 1886: 222 – via Biodiversity Heritage Library.


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