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Ancylolomia

Ancylolomia is a genus of moths of the family Crambidae described by Jacob Hübner in 1825.

Description

Palpi porrect (stretched forward), thickly clothed with hair, and extending about three times the length of head. Maxillary palp triangularly scaled. Frons oblique. Abdomen long. Tibia with outer spurs about two-thirds lengths of inner. Forewings long and narrow. The rounded apex. The outer margin excised below apex, then excurved. Veins 3, 4 and 5 from angle of cell and veins 7, 8 and 9 stalked. Vein 10 free and vein 11 becoming coincident with vein 12. Hindwings with vein 3 from close to angle of cell. Veins 4 and 5 from angle or stalked. Vein 6 from above middle of discocellulars and obsolescent. Vein 7 anastomosing (fused together) with vein 8.

Species

References

  • , 2004: Crambidae: Crambinae and Cybalomiinae (Lepidoptera, Pyraloidea). – In: W. Mey (ed.), The Lepidoptera of the Brandberg Massif in Namibia, Part 1. Esperiana Buchreihe zur Entomologie Memoir 1: 215–220.
  • , 1970: A revision of the Oriental species of the genus Ancylolomia Hübner (Studies on the Crambinae, Lepidoptera Pyralidae part 49). Tijdschrift voor Entomologie 113 (1): 27-43.
  • , 2011: New Crambidae from the Afrotropical region (Lepidoptera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae). Lambillionea 111 (3) Tome 1: 241-248.
  • , 1982: New species and new records of the genus Ancylolomia Hübner from China with notes on specifying the Palaearctic species groups (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Acta Entomologica Sinica 24 (2): 196-202.