Ascalenia jerichoella

Ascalenia jericho ella is a butterfly (moth ) from the family of Chrysopeleiidae.

Features

The moths reach a wingspan of 6 millimeters. The head is brown, the lateral scales of the vertex (vertex ) have bright peaks. The sensors shine brown in the apical half of them are more greyish and slightly sägeförmig. Thorax and tegulae shining dark brown and have shed with light tips. The thorax is back brighter. The forewing shining dark brown. For drawing includes two whitish binding. The first binding is irregular and incomplete, it is located at 1 /3 of the forewing length. The second binding is complete and is 2 /3 of the forewing length. It is widest in the middle, there are some middle brown scales. The fringe scales are brown at the apex, and brownish gray towards the wing inner edge. The hind wings shine light gray, they are more brownish on the Costa loader and towards the apex. The fringe scales are pale ocher- gray.

The genital armature of the males is unknown.

In females, the slit-shaped bulge of the seventh sternite is long and very narrow. The fold is fairly flat, the rear edge is slightly curved. The sterigma has at the ostium of the shape of a curved sclerotized plate. The sterigma and the bulge are enclosed by two large oval portions having a net-like structure. The ductus bursae is long. He is at the ostium wide and tapers towards corpus bursae. It runs in one and a half turns, and is provided with a narrow sclerotized band. The corpus bursae is egg-shaped and has two horn-shaped signals.

Dissemination

Ascalenia jericho ella is widespread in Israel.

Biology

The biology of the species is unknown. The holotype was collected in May at the light.

Documents

• Chrysopeleiidae
• Chrysopeleiidae (Family)