Cirrhochrista kosemponialis Strand, [1919]; PED 15

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  Taxonomy

  
  

  The paratype of Cirrhochrista kosemponialis Strand, [1919 July] 1918: 264 from Taiwan (Kosempo) is in the NHM.
  
  Syn. Cirrhochrista bifurcalis Hampson 1919 [Nov.]: 325 TL India [Mehalaya] Khasis. The male type is also in the NHM, as a junior subjective syn. (Shibuya, 1928: 7).
  
  Inoue 1982 (Moths of Japan) considered C. kosemponialis Strand, a syn. of C. bracteolalis Hampson, but Yuato in Inoue 1987 reinstated it as a good sp. (Yuato. 1987 108: 44)

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  Description

  
  

  Wing length: 11mm. The FW is mainly a pale yellowish in most specimens. It is traversed by three brownish fasciae (typical of most Cirrhochrista spp.); basal, median and sub-apical. These widen to the costa where they can form triangular, fulvous, subcostal marks. The brown lines are studded with golden scales. The median line bifurcates posteriorally and one branch goes to the tornus joining a brown termenal line. The FW fringes are fulvous spotted with brown. The silky HW is a plain white or cream colour with pale fringes. Note the long palpi. The FW of Cirrhochrista mnesidora Meyrick 1894: 475 has a yellow-brown basal area and a yellow-brown patch where the median line bifurcates.

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  Distribution & Habitat

  
  

  India (Niccobar Is.), W. Malaysia, Sabah, Sarawak, Indonesia (Sumatra, East Timor), Taiwan. Lowland.

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  Life History & Pest Status

  
  

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  Similar spp.

  
  

  Cirrhochrista mnesidora
  C. fumipalpis group spp.

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  Unrelated Look-alikes

  
  

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  References

  
  

  Hampson, G.F. (1919f [Nov.]) XXXI Descriptions of new Pyralidae of the Subfamilies Crambinae & Signae, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser 9, 4, (23): 305-326.
  
  Shibuya, J. (1928). The systematic study on the Formosan Pyralidae. Rep. Fac. Agric. Hokkaido Univ. 22 (1): 300 pp., pls. 1-9.
  
  Strand, E. ([1919 July] 1918) H. Sauter’s Formosa-Ausbeute Pyralidae, Subfam. Galleriinae, Schoenobiinae, Anerastiinae und Phycitinae. Stettin ent. Ztg, 79 (1) : 248-276.

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  Genitalia

  
  

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  DNA Barcode

  
  

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  3D Imaging

  
  

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  Spare

  
  

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KEY TO TABS
(1) Taxonomy, (2) Description, (3) Distribution & Habitat, (4) Life History & Pest Status, (5) Similar spp., (6) Unrelated Look-alikes, (7) References, (8) Genitalia, (9) DNA Barcode, (10) 3D Imaging, (11) Spare