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Polygrammodes rufinalis

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Polygrammodes rufinalis
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Domain: Eukaryota
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Polygrammodes
Species:
P. rufinalis
Binomial name
Polygrammodes rufinalis
Hampson, 1899

Polygrammodes rufinalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It is found in Venezuela.[1]

The wingspan is about 46 mm. Adults are brown with a pinkish tinge, the forewings with an indistinct dark antemedial line and a quadrate hyaline spot in the end of the cell and a wedge shaped spot beyond it. There is a dentate postmedial line with a brick-red area between it and the subterminal line. The hindwings have a quadrate hyaline spot in the cell and a wedge shaped spot beyond it. The area from the middle to the terminal band is brick-red.[2]

References

  1. ^ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. ^ Proc. Zool. Soc. London 1899: 198