Udea melanephra is a moth in the family Crambidae. It was described by George Hampson in 1913. It is found in Colombia[1] and Bolivia.[2]
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Scientific classification 
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| Domain: | Eukaryota |
| Kingdom: | Animalia |
| Phylum: | Arthropoda |
| Class: | Insecta |
| Order: | Lepidoptera |
| Family: | Crambidae |
| Genus: | Udea |
| Species: | U. melanephra
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| Binomial name | |
| Udea melanephra (Hampson, 1913)
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The wingspan is about 24 mm. The forewings are ochreous, irrorated with a few blackish scales and with an indistinct sinuous dark antemedial line. There is a faint brown annulus in the middle of the cell and a prominent black discoidal lunule with a slight brown striga in the centre. There is a black point above it on the costa. The postmedial line has a black spot at the costa and there is a series of black points on it, incurved and with small black spot at the discal fold, below vein 4 bent inwards to below the end of the cell, then again excurved. The terminal area is suffused with rufous with a series of black points on the costa towards the apex and on the termen. The hindwings are creamy white, the terminal area tinged with rufous from the costa to vein 2 and there is a small black spot at the upper angle of the cell and a point at the lower angle. There is a terminal series of points from the apex to vein 2.[3]
References
edit- ^ Nuss, M.; et al. (2003–2014). "GlobIZ search". Global Information System on Pyraloidea. Retrieved 2014-07-15.
- ^ BOLD Systems
- ^ The Annals and Magazine of Natural History: Including Zoology, Botany, and Geology
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