
Unidentified - Requires an ID
Lepidoptera: Obtectomera: Pyraloidea: Crambidae: ???
Unknown to me. I asked for help and got multiple conflicting answers which just led to more confusion, but with a light at the end of the tunnel. Liberty Turtera suggested the possibility of this being a Patania silicalis (synonymized as Pleuroptya silicalis) and I really can't discard this suggestion. Then, Victor Olavo Diniz Correia suggested the possibility of this being a Loxomorpha sp. and, after brief research, I could find only one species, Loxomorpha cambogialis, distributed in Brazil according to the genus Wikipedia article (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loxomorpha) and seems to match with this specimen: http://www.discoverlife.org/IM/I_MPG/0120/320/Loxomorpha_cambogialis,I_MPG12071.jpg
I do not know how reliable the Wikipedia article is, but based on the date it was last edited, it was, at the very least, recent. But it is widely known that the full distribution of moths is doubtful. As such, I cannot discard Loxomorpha as a possible bet. So far, both Loxomorpha and Patania silicalis belong in the order Lepidoptera, suborder Obtectomera, superfamily Pyraloidea, family Crambidae, subfamily Spilomelinae and tribe Spilomelini.
Then I received word from André Poremski that this could be a Hahncappsia mancalis but he stated that he does not know the distribution of this moth. The Wikipedia article for this genus shows that the genus is mostly concentrated in North America and Central America, but I could find two matches for Brazil: Hahncappsia ramsdenalis (Schaus, 1920) (source in the comments) and Hahncappsia lautalis (Lederer, 1863) (source in the comments). I could find no pictures of Hahncappsia lautalis and only one picture of H. ramsdenalis which does not help much: http://v3.boldsystems.org/pics/_w300/SAPYR/CNCLEP00075329+1290409956.jpg
Further confusion comes from the subdivisions in which Hahncappsia are included in. I couldn't find truly reliable answers, but they were cited for the subfamily Pyraustinae and tribe Pyraustini of the Crambids. The genus Hahncappsia does look like my specimen, just like Loxomorpha and Patania (synonymized as Pleuroptya), and it goes beyond my abilities to find the truth in this confusing specimen. For now, the identification to this moth will be, frustratingly, left on the family Crambidae. Further informations will be appreciated and credited.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahncappsia_lautalis
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahncappsia_ramsdenalis
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hahncappsia_ramsdenalis Posted 7 years ago