Blepharomastix cronanalis

Blepharomastix cronanalis is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by William Schaus in 1924. It is found in Peru.[1]

Blepharomastix cronanalis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Blepharomastix
Species:
B. cronanalis
Binomial name
Blepharomastix cronanalis
(Schaus, 1924)
Synonyms
  • Stenia cronanalis Schaus, 1924

The wingspan is about 22 mm. The wings are white with terminal fuscous-black points. The lines are fine and buffy brown. The forewing costal margin is suffused with buffy brown and there is an outcurved antemedial line followed by a broken ocellus in the cell at the subcosta. There is a line on the discocellular of the hindwings.[2]

References

  1. Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved July 15, 2014.
  2. Schaus, W. (May 1924). "New Species of Pyralidae of the Subfamily Nymphulinae from Tropical America (Lepid.)". Proceedings of the Entomological Society of Washington. 26 (5): 126 via Internet Archive.


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