Metasia polytima
| Metasia polytima | |
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Subfamily: | Spilomelinae |
| Genus: | Metasia |
| Species: | M. polytima
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| Binomial name | |
| Metasia polytima Turner, 1908
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Metasia polytima is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by Turner in 1908. It is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland.[1]
The wingspan 14–15 mm. The forewings are pale-reddish with a broad dark-fuscous costal streak, a fine fuscous transverse line and a pale discal spot outlined with fuscous and connected by a fine fuscous line with the dorsum beyond the middle. There is also a wavy dark-fuscous line from the costa to before the tornus and the disc is suffused with fuscous beyond this. The terminal line is dark-fuscous. The hindwings have the same colour, antemedian, postmedian and terminal lines as the forewings.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ Transactions of the Royal Society of South Australia
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