Fibuloides rusticola

Fibuloides rusticola
Scientific classification
Kingdom:	Animalia
Phylum:	Arthropoda
Class:	Insecta
Order:	Lepidoptera
Family:	Tortricidae
Genus:	Fibuloides
Species:	F. rusticola
Binomial name
	Fibuloides rusticola; Razowski, 2013

Fibuloides rusticola is a species of moth of the family Tortricidae first described by Józef Razowski in 2013. It is found on Seram Island in Indonesia. The habitat consists of bamboo and secondary forests.

The wingspan is about 17.5 mm. The forewings are whitish, suffused and strigulated (finely streaked) with brown, in the anterior half of the wing with blackish brown, brownish grey postmedially and yellow ferruginous in the apical area. The costal strigulae are white with rust-brown divisions. The hindwings are grey brown, with brown veins. Females are paler than males with a brownish-white ground colour with brownish strigulae and suffusions.

Etymology

The species name refers to the collecting place of one of the paratypes, the village (Latin: rus or ruris) of Kanikeh.[1]

References

Razowski, Józef (December 2013). "An assessment of the Tortricid (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) fauna of Seram Island, Indonesia" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 56 (2): 29–89. doi:10.3409/azc.56_2.29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-29 – via Internet Archive.

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[1] Razowski, Józef (December 2013). "An assessment of the Tortricid (Lepidoptera: Tortricidae) fauna of Seram Island, Indonesia" (PDF). Acta Zoologica Cracoviensia. 56 (2): 29–89. doi:10.3409/azc.56_2.29. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-05-29 – via Internet Archive.