''Udea melanostictalis'' is a
moth
Moths are a paraphyletic group of insects that includes all members of the order Lepidoptera that are not butterflies, with moths making up the vast majority of the order. There are thought to be approximately 160,000 species of moth, many of w ...
in the family
Crambidae
The Crambidae are the grass moth family of lepidopterans. They are variable in appearance, the nominal subfamily Crambinae (grass moths) taking up closely folded postures on grass stems where they are inconspicuous, while other subfamilies includ ...
. It was described by
George Hampson
Sir George Francis Hampson, 10th Baronet (14 January 1860 – 15 October 1936) was an English entomologist.
Hampson studied at Charterhouse School and Exeter College, Oxford. He travelled to India to become a tea-planter in the Nilgiri Hills o ...
in 1916. It is found in
Kenya
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The
wingspan
The wingspan (or just span) of a bird or an airplane is the distance from one wingtip to the other wingtip. For example, the Boeing 777–200 has a wingspan of , and a wandering albatross (''Diomedea exulans'') caught in 1965 had a wingspan of ...
is about 16 mm. The forewings are whitish, tinged and irrorated (sprinkled) with brown. The costal area is browner and there are small antemedial black spots on the subcostal and median nervures, vein 1 and above the inner margin, as well as a black point in the cell towards the extremity and discoidal bar. The postmedial line is black, dentate to vein 4, then with an oblique bar to vein 2, then retracted to below the end of the cell and excurved at the submedian fold and slightly above the inner margin. There is also a curved series of blackish points just before the termen and a terminal series. The hindwings are whitish suffused with red brown and with traces of a curved brown postmedial line. There is also a terminal series of slight brown points.
''Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London''
References
melanostictalis
Moths described in 1916
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