Syllepte nasonalis

Syllepte nasonalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1898.[1] It is endemic to South Africa.[2]

Syllepte nasonalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom:
Animalia
Phylum:
Arthropoda
Class:
Insecta
Order:
Lepidoptera
Family:
Crambidae
Genus:
Syllepte
Species:
S. nasonalis
Binomial name
Syllepte nasonalis
(Hampson, 1898)
Synonyms
  • Sylepta nasonalis Hampson, 1898

The wingspan is about 32 millimetres (1.3 in). The forewings are yellowish brown with a dark-edged hyaline (glass-like) spot in the cell, conjoined to one below. There is a quadrate spot in the end of the cell and a dark postmedial line running out to an angle on vein 5, then retracted to below the angle of the cell, with a series of hyaline spots on its outer edge. The outer area is fuscous brown. The hindwings are fuscous brown with a dark antemedial line, angled on vein 5 and with an irregular hyaline band beyond it. Both wings have a dark marginal line.[3]

References
  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. De Prins, J. & De Prins, W. (2018). "Syllepte nasonalis Hampson, 1898". Afromoths. Retrieved July 7, 2018.
  3. Hampson, G. F. (1898). "A Revision of the Moths of the Subfamily Pyraustinae and Family Pyralidae". Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London. Zoological Society of London: 724.


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