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Sameodes cancellalis (family Crambidae), also known as the Banded Pearl, has a wide discribution across parts of Oceania, Asia, western and southern Africa.
With a wingspan about 20 mm, the adult moths are brown, with white spots/patches and partly outlined in dark brown to black on the forewings, and white bands across the hindwings.
- Scientific classification
- Kingdom: Animalia
- Phylum: Arthropoda
- Subphylum: Hexapoda
- Class: Insecta
- Informal: Pterygotes
- Order: Lepidoptera
- Unranked: Ditrysia
- Superfamily: Pyraloidea
- Family: Crambidae
- Subfamily: Spilomelinae
- Genus: Sameodes
- Species: Sameodes cancellalis
Footnote & References
- Sameodes cancellalis (Zeller, 1852), Atlas of Living Australia, https://bie.ala.org.au/species/Sameodes cancellalis
- Banded Pearl (Sameodes cancellalis), iNaturalistAU, https://inaturalist.ala.org.au/taxa/52038-Sameodes-cancellalis
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