Pilocrocis purpurascens: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Pilocrocis
- Species
- Pilocrocis purpurascens
- Scientific Name
- Pilocrocis purpurascens
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Pilocrocis purpurascens
Pilocrocis purpurascens is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1899. It is found in Loja Province of Ecuador and in Trinidad.
The wingspan is about 40 mm. The wings are dark fuscous with a purplish gloss. Both forewings and hindwings have faint traces of a discoidal spot and a postmedial line.
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Sibling Taxa
- Pilocrocis acutangula
- Pilocrocis anigrusalis
- Pilocrocis barcalis
- Pilocrocis calamistis
- Pilocrocis cryptalis
- Pilocrocis cuprealis
- Pilocrocis cyrisalis
- Pilocrocis deltalis
- Pilocrocis dichochrosialis
- Pilocrocis dichocrosialis
- Pilocrocis fanovalis
- Pilocrocis fulvicolor
- Pilocrocis fumidalis
- Pilocrocis gillipusalis
- Pilocrocis glaucitalis
- Pilocrocis guianalis
- Pilocrocis hesperialis
- Pilocrocis hypoleucalis
- Pilocrocis italavalis
- Pilocrocis janinalis
- Pilocrocis laralis
- Pilocrocis melastictalis
- Pilocrocis metachrysias
- Pilocrocis milvinalis
- Pilocrocis modestalis
- Pilocrocis monothyralis
- Pilocrocis musalis
- Pilocrocis nubilinea
- Pilocrocis patagialis
- Pilocrocis phaeocoryla
- Pilocrocis pterygodia
- Pilocrocis purpurascens
- Pilocrocis ramentalis
- Pilocrocis rectilinealis
- Pilocrocis reniferalis
- Pilocrocis roxonalis
- Pilocrocis sororalis
- Pilocrocis stephanorma
- Pilocrocis xanthostictalis
- Pilocrocis xanthozonalis