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A new Moth Borer of Sugar-cane in Argentina (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 July 2009

Harold E. Box
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♂. Palpus light buff. Antennal shaft honey-yellow with sparse light buff scales. Head and thorax light buff tinged with warm buff. Tergum cartridge-buff, proximal two segments warm buff; pectus cartridge-buff. Legs light buff. Venter light buff. Fore wing light buff tinged with warm buff; veins slightly infuscate; a fuscous black discocellular dot; two series of fuscous dots on the veins beyond the cell, the first deeply bowed (concavity basad) from vein 7 to vein 2, sometimes forming a fuscous line continuing beyond vein 2 and bending to run obliquely into inner margin just before middle; the second series less deeply bowed, from vein 8 to vein 2; a terminal series of interneural black dots. Hind wing whitish, slightly tinged with cartridge-buff, tinged with light buff along costa; faint traces of fuscous interneural terminal dots. Underside of fore-wing light buff tinged along costa and sometimes beyond cell with warm buff; of hind wing whitish tinged with cartridge-buff, costa suffused with light buff. Expanse 30 mm.

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Bulletin of Entomological Research , Volume 21 , Issue 3 , October 1930 , pp. 307 - 308
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1930

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References

* “Informe preliminar sobre el descubrimiento en la República Argentina de una especie de Diatraea nueva para la fauna americana.”—Rev. Ind. Agric. de Tucumán, xix, no. 3–4, pp. 97–103, 2 figs., Tucumán, 1928. An English translation of this was published under the title, “Preliminary Report upon the Occurrence in Argentina of a Species of Diatraea new to the American Fauna,” in the Reference Book of the Sugar Industry of the World, New Orleans, 1928. (Rev. App. Ent., A, xvii, 1929, p. 24.)