Euchromius tanalis
Euchromius tanalis is a butterfly (moth ) of the family Crambidae.
- 3.1 Notes and references
Features
The forewing length is 20 to 24 millimeters. The cremweiße frons is pulled forward and exhibits a distinct peak. The labial palps are creamy white on the sides of basal and top and bottom, otherwise brown. The Maxillarpalpen are just as creamy white and brown basally surrounded. Your last link is creamy white to light brown. The sensors are creamy white.
The thorax is creamy white to brown. The Patagia is light brown and has two inconspicuous, broad, brown stripes. The tegulae creamy white mottled to brown evenly. The front wings are creamy white and densely scaly ocher to dark brown. An ocher-colored brownish Subterminallinie is constructed approximately midway between the terminal pads and the end of the rear wing area. The adjacent to the terminal area is white spots. The eight to nine black terminal spots are arranged in the pattern 2-2-3-1 or 2-2-3-2. The wing fringes are shiny, creamy white and include two or three brown lines. The hind wings are creamy white to light brown. The terms is dark margins, the fringes are white with brownish line. The eighth Tergit has a normal sklerotisiertes sclerite whose rear part is greater than the front. Both parts are approximately rectangular and are connected by a stem.
Similar Species
The species can not be distinguished externally from Euchromius myth and Euchromius geminus. From Euchromius matador, it differs in the arrangement of the terminal spots. In the similar way they are arranged in the pattern 2-2-2-2-1 or 2-2-2-2-2, whereas they in Euchromius tanalis in the pattern 2-2-3-1 or 2-2-3 - 2 are arranged. The African specimens of Euchromius ocelleus have a similarity. However, these have a less strong when pulled forward snout. Genitalmorphologisch differs Euchromius tanalis of the other species by a club-shaped cucullus. The Cornuti form a dense set, the aedeagus is shorter and less slender than in Euchromius myth. The orifice is different than that of the similar types and large tooth-shaped. From Euchromius myth, the nature is also different bursae near the ductus seminalis by a slightly sclerotized part of the ductus. Also, the sclerotized part below the ostium is shaped differently.
Occurrence and habitat
Euchromius tanalis is common in the mountainous regions of Kenya and Ethiopia. The habitat extends to vegetation zones between 1200-3250 meters in altitude. The moths were captured in Ethiopia in October, in Kenya in January, May and June.