Ambia punctimarginata
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| Ambia punctimarginata Rothschild, 1915
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Ambia punctimarginata is a moth in the Crambidae family. It is found in Papua New Guinea.[1]
The wingspan is about 14 mm. The forewings are white, with three spots on the costa and three indistinct dirty brown discal patches. There is a basal dot on the costa and a sooty black median spot below the subcostal vein. There is also a marginal band of sooty black spots. The hindwings are white with two or three irregular and indistinct patches of brown scales and a marginal row of sooty black spots.[2]
References
- ^ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Rothschild, Walter. Macrolepidoptera. Lepidoptera of the British Ornithologists Union and Wollaston Expeditions in the Snow Mountains, Southern Dutch New Guinea. 1915