Udea melanostictalis: taxon details and analytics
- Domain
- Kingdom
- Animalia
- Phylum
- Arthropoda
- Class
- Insecta
- Order
- Lepidoptera
- Family
- Crambidae
- Genus
- Udea
- Species
- Udea melanostictalis
- Scientific Name
- Udea melanostictalis
Summary description from Wikipedia:
Udea melanostictalis
Udea melanostictalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1916. It is found in Kenya.
The wingspan is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged and irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. The costal area is browner and there are small antemedial black spots on the subcostal and median nervures, vein 1 and above the inner margin, as well as a black point in the cell towards the extremity and discoidal bar. The postmedial line is black, dentate to vein 4, then with an oblique bar to vein 2, then retracted to below the end of the cell and excurved at the submedian fold and slightly above the inner margin. There is also a curved series of blackish points just before the termen and a terminal series. The hindwings are whitish suffused with red brown and with traces of a curved brown postmedial line. There is also a terminal series of slight brown points.
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Sibling Taxa
- Udea abstrusa
- Udea accolalis
- Udea adversa
- Udea affinialis
- Udea alaskalis
- Udea albipunctalis
- Udea alpinalis
- Udea angustalis
- Udea annectans
- Udea antipodea
- Udea argoscelis
- Udea aurora
- Udea austriacalis
- Udea autoclesalis
- Udea azorensis
- Udea berberalis
- Udea bipunctalis
- Udea bourgognealis
- Udea brevipalpis
- Udea brontias
- Udea bryochloris
- Udea caliginosalis
- Udea calliastra
- Udea caminopis
- Udea carniolica
- Udea cataphaea
- Udea chalcophanes
- Udea chloropis
- Udea chytropa
- Udea confinalis
- Udea conisalias
- Udea constricta
- Udea conubialis
- Udea costalis
- Udea cretacea
- Udea cyanalis
- Udea daiclesalis
- Udea decoripennis
- Udea decrepitalis
- Udea derasa
- Udea despecta
- Udea donzelalis
- Udea dracontias
- Udea dryadopa
- Udea elutalis
- Udea endopyra
- Udea ennychioides
- Udea ephippias
- Udea epicoena
- Udea eucrena
- Udea exalbalis
- Udea exigualis
- Udea ferrugalis
- Udea fimbriatralis
- Udea fulvalis
- Udea grisealis
- Udea hageni
- Udea hamalis
- Udea helioxantha
- Udea heterodoxa
- Udea hyalistis
- Udea ichinosawana
- Udea indistinctalis
- Udea infuscalis
- Udea inquinatalis
- Udea institalis
- Udea intermedia
- Udea itysalis
- Udea lagunalis
- Udea lampadias
- Udea languidalis
- Udea latipennalis
- Udea lerautalis
- Udea liopis
- Udea litorea
- Udea livida
- Udea lolotialis
- Udea lugubralis
- Udea lutealis
- Udea maderensis
- Udea marmarina
- Udea mechedalis
- Udea melanopis
- Udea melanostictalis
- Udea metasema
- Udea micacea
- Udea montanalis
- Udea montensis
- Udea monticolens
- Udea murinalis
- Udea muscosalis
- Udea nebulalis
- Udea nebulatalis
- Udea nigrescens
- Udea nolalis
- Udea nordeggensis
- Udea nordmani
- Udea notata
- Udea numeralis
- Udea ochreocapitalis
- Udea octosignalis
- Udea olivalis
- Udea ommatias
- Udea orbicentralis
- Udea pachygramma
- Udea pantheropa
- Udea phaethontia
- Udea phyllostegia
- Udea platyleuca
- Udea poasalis
- Udea poliostolalis
- Udea praepetalis
- Udea profundalis
- Udea proximalis
- Udea prunalis
- Udea psychropa
- Udea pyranthes
- Udea radiosalis
- Udea rhabdalis
- Udea rhododendronalis
- Udea rubigalis
- Udea ruckdescheli
- Udea saxifragae
- Udea scorialis
- Udea secernalis
- Udea sheppardi
- Udea simplicella
- Udea stationalis
- Udea stellata
- Udea stigmatalis
- Udea suralis
- Udea swezeyi
- Udea tachdirtalis
- Udea tenoalis
- Udea testacea
- Udea thermantis
- Udea thermantoidis
- Udea torvalis
- Udea tritalis
- Udea turmalis
- Udea uliginosalis
- Udea uralica
- Udea vacunalis
- Udea violae
- Udea washingtonalis
- Udea zernyi