Tabidia candidalis is a moth in the family Crambidae.[1] It is found in China (Zhejiang, Guangdong) and India.
Tabidia candidalis | |
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Scientific classification | |
Domain: | Eukaryota |
Kingdom: | Animalia |
Phylum: | Arthropoda |
Class: | Insecta |
Order: | Lepidoptera |
Family: | Crambidae |
Genus: | Tabidia |
Species: | T. candidalis
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Binomial name | |
Tabidia candidalis (Warren, 1896)
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The wingspan is 15–18 mm. The forewings are white, the basal area tinged with greyish-fuscous. The antemedial line is blackish the outer margin with a black blotch along the upper half. The discoidal stigma is black, the postmedial line is fuscous and is followed on the costa by a large black blotch. The lower third of the median area is fulvous with a round blackish apical spot. The hindwings are white, but the outer third is blackish.[2]
References
edit- ^ "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Chinese Tabidia, 1880 (Lepidoptera: Crambidae, Spilomelinae), with description of one new species