Tanaobela
Tanaobela is a genus of moths in the superfamily Pyraloidea containing only one species, Tanaobela chrysochlora, which is found in Australia, where it has been recorded from Queensland. Its affiliations are disputed.
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| Genus: | Tanaobela Turner, 1915[1] |
| Species: | T. chrysochlora |
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| Tanaobela chrysochlora Turner, 1915 | |
The wingspan is about 20 mm. The forewings are yellowish-green without defined markings, although there is a brownish streak on the base of the costa and a minute dot beneath the mid-costa, as well as traces of a pale-fuscous dentate transverse line and some fuscous suffusion at the tornus. The hindwings are pale-pinkish with a narrow dark-fuscous sub-dorsal blotch.[2]
Taxonomy
Historically it was placed in subfamily Pyraustinae of the grass moth family (Crambidae); more recent authors have alternatively assigned it to the tribe Pyralini of subfamily Pyralinae; these belong to the snout moth family (Pyralidae) which used to include the grass moths.
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