Lamprosema niphealis

Lamprosema niphealis
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Class: Insecta
Order: Lepidoptera
Family: Crambidae
Genus: Lamprosema
Species: L. niphealis
Binomial name
Lamprosema niphealis
(Walker, 1859)
Synonyms
  • Botys niphealis Walker, 1859
  • Botys epastalis Swinhoe, 1885
  • Lamprosema niphealis ab. rufaurina Ghesquière, 1942

Lamprosema niphealis is a moth in the Crambidae family. It was described by Walker in 1859.[1] It is found on the Chagos Archipelago, the Democratic Republic of Congo (Orientale, East Kasai, Equateur, Katanga, Bas Congo), Kenya, Maldives, Seychelles (Mahé, Fregate, Silhouette, Denis) and Sierra Leone, India, Myanmar and Sri Lanka.[2]

References

  1. "global Pyraloidea database". Globiz.pyraloidea.org. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
  2. Afro Moths
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