''Udea montanalis'' 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. It was described by Schaus in 1912. It is found in

Costa Rica Costa Rica (, ; ; literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica ( es, República de Costa Rica), is a country in the Central American region of North America, bordered by Nicaragua to the north, the Caribbean Sea to the no ...

. The

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is about 21 mm. The forewings are brown, with darker irrorations and a round whitish dark-edged spot in the middle of the cell and a curved whitish line on the discocellular, more broadly edged with dark brown. There is a small black postmedial spot on the costa. The hindwings are white with a brownish line terminal, somewhat interrupted by the veins.New species of Heterocera from Costa Rica. XIV

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montanalis Moths described in 1912 {{Udea-stub