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Ptychopseustis impar

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Description

Ptychopseustis impar (Warren & Rothschild, 1905)

Platytes impar Warren & Rothschild, 1905: 25, Pl. 4 fig. 8.

Imago (fig. 35): Wingspan 13–16 mm. Head and appendages pale buff, maxillary palpus short, labial palpus just greater than diameter of eye. Thorax and tegulae pale buff. Forewing ground colour pale buff, finely suffused darker scales especially in basal half of wing, irregular median fascia; second fascia similar, suffused dark fuscous beyond second fascia, subterminal row of dark fuscous spots. Hindwing pale fuscous, weak terminal spots.

Male genitalia: not examined.

Female genitalia: not examined.

Diagnosis: Distinguished by the pale median area of the forewing strongly contrasted with the fascias.

Life history; not known.

Distribution; Sudan.

Type material: Holotype ♀ [SUDAN] Nakheila, R. Atbara 5.ii.1904 (NHMUK)

Paratype ♀ same data as holotype, 7.ii.1904.

Other material examined: 1 specimen without abdomen, 5.ii.1904,, 1♀ same locality 31.i.1904, 1♀ Hudeiba 29.x.1966 CIE collection (abdomen glued on).

Notes

Published as part of Agassiz, David, 2022, The tribe Cybalomiini (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea, Crambidae, Glaphyrinae) of sub-Saharan Africa, pp. 101-156 in Zootaxa 5174 (2) on page 125, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.5174.2.1, http://zenodo.org/record/6986011

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Biodiversity

Collection code
NHMUK
Event date
1904-02-05 , 1904-02-07
Verbatim event date
1904-02-05 , 1904-02-07
Scientific name authorship
Warren & Rothschild
Kingdom
Animalia
Phylum
Arthropoda
Order
Lepidoptera
Family
Crambidae
Genus
Ptychopseustis
Species
impar
Taxon rank
species
Type status
holotype , paratype
Taxonomic concept label
Ptychopseustis impar (Warren, 1905) sec. Agassiz, 2022