Potamomusa midas is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Arthur Gardiner Butler in 1881.[1] It is found in Japan (Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu, Yakushima Islands), China (south to Hubei), the Russian Far East (Amur, Ussuri) and Korea.
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Potamomusa |
| Species: | P. midas
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| Binomial name | |
| Potamomusa midas (Butler, 1881)
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The length of the forewings is 8.2–9.7 mm for males and 9.1–14 mm for females.
Full-grown larvae reach a length of 20–34 mm.[2]
References edit
- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Yoshiyasu, Y. 1985: A systematic study of the Nymphulinae and the Musotiminae of Japan (Lepidoptera: Pyralidae). Scientific Reports of the Kyoto Prefectural University Agriculture, Kyoto 37: 1–162.