Elophila melagynalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Elophila
- Species
- Elophila melagynalis
- Scientific Name
- Elophila melagynalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Elophila melagynalis
Elophila melagynalis is a species of moth of the family Crambidae. It was described by David John Lawrence Agassiz in 1978 from a specimen that was found in greenhouses of aquaristic plants in the United Kingdom but its exact origin was unknown. The author suggested the Far East. The presence of this moths has also been stated in Réunion, Japan (the Ryukyus), Sri Lanka and Thailand.
Records from Fujian province in China proved to be an misidentification of Thysanoidma octalis.
The wingspan is 9–11 mm for males and 11–13 mm for females. The inner half of the forewings is dark fuscous and the outer half is white. The hindwings are white.
...Elophila melagynalis in languages:
- Japanese
- クロキマダラミズメイガ
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Parent Taxon
Sibling Taxa
- Elophila acornutus
- Elophila africalis
- Elophila aristodora
- Elophila atlantica
- Elophila bourgognei
- Elophila brunnildalis
- Elophila daemonalis
- Elophila difflualis
- Elophila drumalis
- Elophila ealensis
- Elophila ekthlipsis
- Elophila faulalis
- Elophila feili
- Elophila fengwhanalis
- Elophila fluvialis
- Elophila gyralis
- Elophila icciusalis
- Elophila interruptalis
- Elophila manilensis
- Elophila maralis
- Elophila melagynalis
- Elophila minima
- Elophila minimalis
- Elophila miurai
- Elophila nebulosalis
- Elophila nigralbalis
- Elophila nigrolinealis
- Elophila nuda
- Elophila nymphaeata
- Elophila obliteralis
- Elophila occidentalis
- Elophila orientalis
- Elophila radiospinula
- Elophila responsalis
- Elophila rivulalis
- Elophila roesleri
- Elophila scitalis
- Elophila separatalis
- Elophila sinicalis
- Elophila tinealis
- Elophila turbata
- Elophola scitalis